As for indigenous, Mao of course killed a lot of indigenous Chinese in the course of his war. I’m not sure using these categories of people for moral outrage is useful for analysis, unless there’s some kind of sustained genocidal campaign, which there clearly wasn’t.
It’s a much worse look since Gonzalo wasn’t Indigenous but some white settler. It just reminds me of CHAZ where they made so much about CHAZ being free of the US but a couple of Black teens got murdered by white settler guards, meaning that CHAZ managed to reproduced the settler-colonial plantation of the US.
Honestly, the main takeaway from Gonzalo is that decolonization has to be the primary focus within settler colonies (Peru is a settler colony as well) and if your so-called revolutionary movement isn’t decolonial, it will reproduce settler-colonialism. That’s what the whole killing Indigenous peasants represented in the end. It’s just a reproduction of settler-colonialism, which is inherently genocidal towards the Indigenous and Indigeneity. Towards the end, Indigenous communities began to take up arms against the PCP. You could say that those armed militia are reactionary, but to me, it’s just them wanting to chase out settler crackers and I see absolutely nothing wrong with that.
its important though to seperate the ‘look’ from the actual circumstances. Was he anti-indigenous, did he kill indigenous Peruvians deliberately because of their ethnicity, or because some were fighting on the side of landed interests?
Lots of bolsheviks were Jewish, of course that doesn’t mean that in killing Russian opponents they were carrying out an anti-Russian campaign - although that is a common rightist accusation, presumably because of how it ‘looks’.
As far as I understand Peru, a lot of the rural areas have indigenous populations, partly because many fled there during the European conquest. I don’t think it is possible that the resistance movement could have done what it did without the support of a large amount of indigenous people. Of course, some will have opposed the communists - the armed militia, referred to as ‘peasant patrols’ seem to me to be paramilitaries assisted by the state and fighting for landowners, particularly cattle ranchers.
It’s a much worse look since Gonzalo wasn’t Indigenous but some white settler. It just reminds me of CHAZ where they made so much about CHAZ being free of the US but a couple of Black teens got murdered by white settler guards, meaning that CHAZ managed to reproduced the settler-colonial plantation of the US.
Honestly, the main takeaway from Gonzalo is that decolonization has to be the primary focus within settler colonies (Peru is a settler colony as well) and if your so-called revolutionary movement isn’t decolonial, it will reproduce settler-colonialism. That’s what the whole killing Indigenous peasants represented in the end. It’s just a reproduction of settler-colonialism, which is inherently genocidal towards the Indigenous and Indigeneity. Towards the end, Indigenous communities began to take up arms against the PCP. You could say that those armed militia are reactionary, but to me, it’s just them wanting to chase out settler crackers and I see absolutely nothing wrong with that.
its important though to seperate the ‘look’ from the actual circumstances. Was he anti-indigenous, did he kill indigenous Peruvians deliberately because of their ethnicity, or because some were fighting on the side of landed interests?
Lots of bolsheviks were Jewish, of course that doesn’t mean that in killing Russian opponents they were carrying out an anti-Russian campaign - although that is a common rightist accusation, presumably because of how it ‘looks’.
As far as I understand Peru, a lot of the rural areas have indigenous populations, partly because many fled there during the European conquest. I don’t think it is possible that the resistance movement could have done what it did without the support of a large amount of indigenous people. Of course, some will have opposed the communists - the armed militia, referred to as ‘peasant patrols’ seem to me to be paramilitaries assisted by the state and fighting for landowners, particularly cattle ranchers.