Re: PCP Idealisation of violence

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Here are some of the thought of President Gonzalo from the "Interview
with Chairman Gonzalo" conducted by the editors of "El Diario",
Luis Arce Borja and Janet Talavera, July 1988.


EL DIARIO:  Chairman, would you accept talks with Alan Garcia Perez?

CHAIRMAN GONZALO:  The idea of talks is being bandied about, and it
is also part of the superpowers' game, especially the social-imperialists.
We see the situation this way: there is a time in the development of
a people's war when relations and diplomatic dealings become necessary
and do occur.  For example, the meeting between Chairman Mao and
Chiang Kai-shek.  This is something people are familiar with.  We
also saw it in the case of Vietnam.  It is a facet in the development
of a revolutionary war and, even more so, of a people's war.  But we
must start from the understanding that in diplomatic meetings
agreements signed at the table only reflect what has already been
established on the battlefield, because no one is going to give up
what they have not obviously lost.  That is understood.  Well, one
could ask, has that moment arrived in Peru?  That moment has not
arrived.  So why raise the issues of talks?  Such talks are simply
aimed at halting or undermining the people's war, that's what they
are aimed at and nothing more.  So I repeat, the truth is that the
time for meetings and diplomatic dealings has not arrived, it makes
no sense.

As for the rest, I think it is a demagogic matter that they have
been stirring up since the time of Belaunde's government, when
due to a proposal from someone from the United Left that was
accepted, the then-president stated that there was no suitable
interlocutor.  Words!  At bottom it was nothing but cheap
demagoguery without rhyme or reason, and it's still the same
today.  And who talks about talks?  The revisionists, the
opportunists, and those who have hope for APRA, for this
demo-bourgeois order, for this reactionary order.  They are
the ones.  But are they not at the same time the ones who are
promoting pacification, our destruction?  Are they not the same
ones who make proposals, about how to pacify better, which means
how to sweep us away, because such are their sinister dreams to
satisfy their attetites?  They are the same ones.  What a
coincidence!  So then, these talks are a sinister betrayal.
Furthermore, one could ask: how can they talk about dialogue,
those who even made an amnesty pact with Garcia Perez, which
he never honored?

So for me all this jabbering about talks is nothing, I repeat,
but looking for a way to undermine the people's war, because
it doesn't correspond to reality.  When the time comes, the
people's war will necesarily have to undertake diplomatic
dealings.  But our diplomacy will be aimed at seizing
Power countrywide, fully and completly.  We don't want a
North Vietnam and a South Vietnam, we don't want a North
Korea and a South Korea.  We don't want a North Peru and
a South Peru, we want only one Peru.  This is our condition:
full, complete and absolute surrender.  Are they ready for
that?  No.  What they are plotting is our destruction, and
so talks are nothing but a part of that same plan despite all
their demagogic and philistine cackling.


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