Reddit reviews A Nation Aborted: Rizal, American Hegemony, and Philippine Nationalism

Floro Quibuyen said in his book A Nation Aborted said that Rizal had something grander than independence during that time, hence him fighting for assimilation instead of independence. Keep in mind that the Philippines, even as a colony of the Spanish Empire back then, was still in its infancy, and when assimilated, we could've been developed into something big. The lack of national identity (we were fragmented to provinces back then), the fucked-up government system (friars control the government), and god knows what else, we still had a long way from becoming a country ourselves. The assimilation was just to lay the foundation of the country, and who know what could've happened after that. Rizal saw the possibilities, and the revolution aborted the whole thing.