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

  • Soviet Snake
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    71 year ago

    There is a book about it wrote by a Peruvian Marxist who supposedly says it was funded by the CIA, some people here were trabslating it but it is complicated. It is only in Spanish.

      • Soviet Snake
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        51 year ago

        It’s called CIA Sendero Luminoso: Guerra política by Andero Matias, I have a .pdf but it’s in Spanish. :/ I can read it, though.

    • ButtigiegMineralMap
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      41 year ago

      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

      • Soviet Snake
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        61 year ago

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

    • hungrybreadOP
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      41 year ago

      Interesting, I’ll have to keep an eye out for it. I don’t envy the folks trying to translate something like that

      • Soviet Snake
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        41 year ago

        Check the other comments, the name is there. It’s not really a hard translation, and the book isn’t really that long, if I wouldn’t have to work/study and don’t kill myself from exhaustion I could translate it in maybe a month if it were like, my job or something, but well, it’s a tedious a slow thing to do when you are doing out of love, some parts are translated, I really want to help with this but I never have time.