Shining Path and Ridgway

[Maoist Internationalist Movement <mim3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We have heard this story that the communists
round up villagers by force and that is the
only way they ever gain any support. We have
heard this applied to entire countries such
as China, where the revolutionaries supposedly
did this all the way to state power.

While such a strategy might work in a perfectly
empty vacuum, the state in each case has
always started with more weapons, more people
and vastly superior technology. How is it possible
to defeat superior enemy forces without support
from the people? How could the Vietnamese have held
out if they hadn't had incredible support from the
people against U.S. imperialism?

How could the Peruvian Communist Party become
such a threat to the state, if it did not have
support from the people, support that more than
makes up for their lack of rich high-tech backers like
U.S. imperialism?


Maoist Internationalist Movement



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