That is the irony. This poverty is what led to Shining Path, but then they turned on the poor. It was the poor that they were killing,
Quote from a Peruvian farmer.
It used to be said that communists didn't love the poor so much as hate the rich.
Their modern ideological descendants are even more twisted than that. They truly do seem to hate the poor for failing the ideology that seeks to appropriate their voice.
Communism is scam. Its a charade to get the poor, working class, and societal outcasts to assist one group of elites to overthrow another group of elites and seize power. Upon its supposed success, the new elites then proceed to behave in an even more violent and brutish manner than the previous rulers.
Have you noticed that, generally, communism is imposed upon the working class by the middle classes, because the working classes themselves want nothing to do with it.
Obviously, not someone very learned about South American history. All "people's movements" in South America are just an excuse to install an aristocracy of authoritarians to run a new police state.
Already Shining Path members had decimated the interior of the country, their terror sparking a brutal government response, which was characterized by a wanton disregard for the rule of law or basic human rights, and whose victims, once again, were primarily the rural and indigenous poor.
This is probably the worst thing about communists. Because they regard any shred of civilised behaviour as a weakness to exploit, they invariably draw an excessive response that harms those they claim they wish to protect.
The truth is, of course, that living workers aren't of all that much interest to any communist.
Dead ones, though ... those can be turned into martyrs, and those martyrs can be used to create even more dead workers, to be made into yet more martyrs.
No argument there. Peru has a worse problem with communism than the US. Although they are guerillas, they are relatively straight-forward compared to American communists.
Guzman himself was a teacher - as was his role model, Pol Pot.
Quote from a Peruvian farmer.
It used to be said that communists didn't love the poor so much as hate the rich.
Their modern ideological descendants are even more twisted than that. They truly do seem to hate the poor for failing the ideology that seeks to appropriate their voice.
Communism is scam. Its a charade to get the poor, working class, and societal outcasts to assist one group of elites to overthrow another group of elites and seize power. Upon its supposed success, the new elites then proceed to behave in an even more violent and brutish manner than the previous rulers.
It is - and the working class can see this.
Have you noticed that, generally, communism is imposed upon the working class by the middle classes, because the working classes themselves want nothing to do with it.
Telling, isn't it?
Good, because the working class are the only people who can stop Communism once the ball gets rolling.
Obviously, not someone very learned about South American history. All "people's movements" in South America are just an excuse to install an aristocracy of authoritarians to run a new police state.
Thats all "people's movements" period
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This is probably the worst thing about communists. Because they regard any shred of civilised behaviour as a weakness to exploit, they invariably draw an excessive response that harms those they claim they wish to protect.
The truth is, of course, that living workers aren't of all that much interest to any communist.
Dead ones, though ... those can be turned into martyrs, and those martyrs can be used to create even more dead workers, to be made into yet more martyrs.
That's all communists seem to know.
If only all of South America had a Pinochet in power.
Hell, North America too for that matter.
Edit: Europe can have one too
No argument there. Peru has a worse problem with communism than the US. Although they are guerillas, they are relatively straight-forward compared to American communists.
Communism is the grift that keeps on giving.