Re: Shining Path, Dmitrov and...

[lquispe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Luis Quispe)]

> This definetely will shake up the "Marxist" list. Great reply!!!

> Louis, thank you for your high-toned reply.  Neither I nor the PCP ("Shining
> Path" in your lingo) attack or criticize the so-called " legal left" in Peru
> simply for being.  Those being singled out are precisely those who
> collaborate with the government (which is a veritable "Murder, Inc." with
> state power) in fingering suspected communists for arrest, torture, and
> murder.  Those (like their counterparts in the American AFL-CIO) whose hands
> are dripping with the blood of revoutlionaries, who organize the rondas
> (cviilian militias), who aid in the "disappearance" of those (like the
> students La Cantuta) who do not toe the official line on the revolution.  The
> leaders of the "legal left" (Pease, Bernales, etc.) are part and parcel of
> the rotten Peruvian state.  They are increasingly despised by the people (in
> the last farcical "election" in April, 1995, IU received less than 0.5% of
> the valid votes.  Once crowded on Fujimori's bandwagon in 1990, they have
> since become the dispenser of toilet paper to the reformist left.  They play
> the same role in Peru that Jesse Jackson, Wellstone, Sanders, et al play in
> American politics; cheap frauds who parlay 'left" politics into comfortable
> careers for themselves, along with the union misleadership, etc., while the
> hundreds of thousands of jobs are cut, people thrown out on the street, etc.
>  The PCP, whatever, their faults, stand to totally demolish the fetid
> Peruvian state.  The "united left," in its many incarnations, seeks within
> that same state the peace of the cemetaries.
>                                 Louis Godena
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