IMO it is stupid to think “Maoism” is something different to Leninism. Leninism is Marx’s theory applied into practice, and as they said, this changes accordingly depending on the material and social context of the reality where it is being carried out. Mao did not do anything that couldn’t be classified as Leninism, if anything I said one could speak about Dengism or SwCC as being something different, but in the end they are also Leninism but applied after a lot of years where Marxists studies where able to bloom. I don’t know which communist Peruvian party they refer to, but if they mean Sendero Luminoso, then they are completely blinded, since they were shit.
I honestly don’t have anything so monstrous against people who identify as Maoists, and by any means if they achieve any meaningful impact and they can sustain it, it’s better than capitalism, but if you can’t understand something so simple as this, you’re bound to commit a lot more mistakes. Also these people is the one who accuse us of revisionism while they basically deny any modern communist State as such, what happened is not that we did revisionism, but only Marxist thought grew stronger, and the tactics changed.
Can you recommend any good sources about the Shining Path and Gonzalo?
There’s a book written by a Peruvian communist who speaks about a supposedly involvement of the CIA and Sendero, the book is only in Spanish and @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml was doing an English translation among with some other people (I said I was going to help but I still haven’t find the time to do it T_T). I think that would be a good one. I’ve seen a person I follow on BookWyrm reading this, but I am unsure how good it is.
Thanks! Another reason to learn Spanish ~[:>)]
Aguante la revolución, chabón.
BadEmpanada’s video discusses the Shining Path thoroughly with sources too. I watched most of it (~40 minutes), and it paints a very different light from how internet Maoists describe this organization and its leadership
I’ll have a cautious look and hope it’s one of his good videos