This is some great critique. It seems the individual cells need to be placed under stronger party ideological control to reduce the grift and bad takes. It is hard to differentiate a protection racket from a taxation scheme, but I wonder how much of that is western propaganda.
As someone watching from the West, I though the NPA was growing in size in recent years, certainly around 2010 there was dropping membership. I'd also heard positive things about their increasing territory control.
This is some great critique. It seems the individual cells need to be placed under stronger party ideological control to reduce the grift and bad takes. It is hard to differentiate a protection racket from a taxation scheme, but I wonder how much of that is western propaganda.
As someone watching from the West, I though the NPA was growing in size in recent years, certainly around 2010 there was dropping membership. I'd also heard positive things about their increasing territory control.