• Gkalaitza [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Nah not even close. Despite them fucking up massively, having horrible and violent wings and outbursts and losing popular support they were way way more legitimate than the Khmer Rouge and an actual revolutionary communist movement practicing people's war (pretty successfully till they didnt).

    They are on the same vain and global tide as the people's wars that are still going on in the Phillipines and India (naxalites) etc with very little differences between them and these ideologicaly or in strategies. They just shit the bed hard in the height of the people's war while suspecting everyone as a collaborator ,turned violent against local rural population in a couple of instances and then didnt denounce it leading to them losing popular support and becoming progressively weirded

    • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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      3 years ago

      I mean, this is kinda downplaying how ridiculously brutal shit like Lucanamarca was, and how it was essentially just downplayed as "Shit happens when you do revolutions, sometimes you just torture elderly villagers and small kids with boiling water then hack them to death with machetes, but at least we made our point".

      • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        :dril: me and a bunch of stupid assholes are going to start a community in the middle of the desert to either die or prove a very important point :dril:

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      they were way way more legitimate than the Khmer Rouge and an actual revolutionary communist movement

      You can say the same stuff about the Khmer Rouge. They were every bit as bad, they just never got to power. The only difference was that Shining Path was on slightly better theoretical grounding, but very slightly better. Even before they became big they were completely out of touch and weird, and they operated largely like a cult.