Are there any decent reads on the Communist Party of Peru / the Shining Path? Ideally something that at least attempts to be somewhat objective and attempts to do some actual crit.

I recently picked up The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes off of a recommendation but the authors are pretty blatantly anti-communist at times. Frequently it reads like an unreliable narrator and not like its really trying to provide a detailed picture of the situation.

Edit: for transparency, I’ve only read about the first 1/4th of The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution

  • ButtigiegMineralMap
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    ill check for info on it online, It really wouldn’t surprise me at all. Peru’s Shining Path had similarities to Pol Pot and Pol Pot was CIA funded

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      It’s called CIA Sendero Luminoso: Guerra política by Andero Matias.