Includes bibliographical references.

On the limits of "postcolonial' theory: Trespassing letters from the third world -- hegemony and resistance: dialects of Philippines-United states cultural encounter -- Establishment postcolonialism and its alter/ native others -- The revolutionary aesthetics of Friedrich Engels -- The mass line in CLR Jame's imagination -- Bertolt Brecht's Philippine connection -- An introduction to raymond williams' theory of cultural revolution -- The struggle for socialist transformation in the philippines.

This book is composed mainly in the imperial metropolis, their publication in the Philippines represents a crossing of borders and time zones emblematic of the crisis of transnational capitalism.