I'll preface this by saying this is an ML post on a ML sub written for an ML audience. This post will contain sectarian critiques on the ultra-Left as well as anarchists.
I'll preface this by saying this is an ML post on a ML sub written for an ML audience. This post will contain sectarian critiques on the ultra-Left as well as anarchists.
I think that ,while acknowledging that Gonzalo as well as many members sucked major ass and that the Shining path chocked an winnable revolution through ultra-left violence and adventurism , we have to keep in mind that there probably were thousands of commited ,good intentioned comrades participating in the people's war in Peru that did good work and probably tens of thousands peasants and people that supported it in a struggle for a better socialist future (they wouldnt end up contolling almost half the country at some point if that wasnt true)
Show no love for Gonzalo or anyone who participated in the massacres and civilian violence but respect and even be sad for the many in that revolution ,inside and outside the Shining path, that dont deserve their struggle and fighting to be lumped up, rediculed and forgoten along with the (for sure numerous as well groups) inside the peruvian revolution that deserve redicule and to be thrown in the dustbin of history