> be me, Abimael Guzmán
> be philosophy prof in dead-end uni job
> long to wield power
> have god complex and horny for ladies
> local orgs keep throwing me out for being a sexpest and a spiteful asshole
> local leftoids dont see my brilliance
don’t care, am god, am chairman gonzalo
have cia contacts through uni
fuck it why not
> get money from cia to start my cult / party
> start my own party cult with blackjack and hookers
> cia promises i can be dictator
> get guns
> get coke
> get sex cult
> write cocaine manifestos about how everyone is fake except me
> tell followers way to get proles is to massacre them into class consciousness
murder over 24,000 ppl, including bebes
> still no mass line, probably just need to kill more
cia tells me 2 chill
> ignore cia, slaughter more bebes (boiling hot water 🥵)
everyone in peru hates me now
don’t care, am god, am chairman gonzalo
> mfw cia turns on me and puts less batshit fash dude in power
> new fash dude named after apples or some shit
> mfw new fash gives all the peruvians shit tons of shotguns instead of apples
> wtf all my cultists are getting blown apart with shotguns
> mfw my adventurism turned peasants from lumpen to reactionary fash
> mfw i get locked up for war crimes by the fash gov I helped create
am in jail
> no guns
> no coke
> no sex cult
don’t care, am god, am chairman gonzalo
> cia says “dont worry fam, we’ll make you popular in usa”
> start building my party cult again from jail
crackers love me
already lost so perfect martyr
chauvinist crackers keep sending me money
hell yeah still got it
Gonzalo went to revolutionary school in Mao's China where they taught him to make bombs and stuff. That said, I'm pretty sure he must have had some ties to CIA unless his original synthesis of Maoist theory is just naturally that bad. With less abuses against the indigenous and campesinos, thus alienating them, shining path could have actually taken power and overthrown capitalism.