His entire thing was mixing José Carlos Mariátegui/Peruvian Socialist with European Socialism/Marxism and Maoism. Most of his texts are usually just explaining Mariateguism (the proposal was a return to the old Incan Society, since Mariategui considered them a form of Proto-Rural Socialism, but without the emperors and religion) Maoism and Marxism. Gonzalo was really weird and the current day Shining Path is actually Pro-China and Pro-Russia, they are currently alligned with the Liberal Social Democrats, the Ethnocarcerists (Left-Wing Incan Ultranationalists, those are soldiers and officers inspired or were a part of Gen. Velasco's Peruvian Socialist goverment during the 1960s - 1970s) and Inkarri Islam (A Islamic Ultranationalist group that supports an Incan Communist Islamic state and promotes unity between Islam, Catholicism and Incan Mythology).

[–] OffSeasonPrincess@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What the fuck is going on with them these days

Also arent there like, 2 groups that claim to be the shining paths successors? And is one of them involved with the drug trade or is that just propaganda

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Shining Path is not well liked by large parts of the Peruvian left. Afaik, a lot of communists say that the Shining Path was financed or influenced by the CIA to deslegitimize the MRTA (Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement) and destabilize the socdem goverment of Alan Garcia. After the Fujimori dictatorship of the 1990s crackdown hard on both the Shining Path (without Fujimori's knowledge btw) and on the MRTA (Fujimori personally posed with dead corpses of guerrilla fighters), and the Pink Tide resulting on Alan Garcia second govemrnet and Gen. Ollanta Humala goverment, they lost all their power and divided into many factions.

Nowadays they're allied with the Anti-Fujimori Coalition or the Progressive Coalition (it seems like many people in the global south calls this vague coalition of anti-neoliberal/anti-fascist political parties that include liberals, conservatives, socialists, socdems, nationalists and communists, they call it Progressivism). They barely controls any real territory anymore and I wouldn't be surprise if many of them gave up on ideological struggle and joined organized crime. I know that a bunch of them ended up joining the Ethnocarcerism movement (which is made up by a lot of soldiers and officers that they used to fight during the 1980s).

[–] OffSeasonPrincess@hexbear.net 7 points 5 days ago

Heres how ~~bernie~~ sendero can still win

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago

Afaik, a lot of communists say that the Shining Path was financed or influenced by the CIA to deslegitimize the MRTA (Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement) and destabilize the socdem goverment of Alan Garcia.

Here's an English translation of a work that discusses this: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:The_CIA%27s_Shining_Path:_Political_Warfare

[–] Moidialectica@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wow I feel like I know jack shit about south America now, I was missing out on a lot

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 10 points 5 days ago

A lot of the problems and chaos that Peru have been experience recently is due to the Tacnazo 1975 coup. This coup led to the chaos during the 1980s and 1990s (Velasco had previously banned all communist parties but at the same time he freed all communists from jail and gave them jobs inside his goverment, he even had them create a Socialist Party to support his goverment. Velasco renamed a bunch of things to native names, he promoted native languages and would have gone way futher with his reforms if weren't for the USA sabotaging his goverments and Gen. J. J. Torres' socialist goverment in Bolivia).

Velasco Alvarado was overthrown in 1975 by his prime minister Francisco Morales Bermúdez, who overturned many of Velasco Alvarado's pro-Socialist reforms and joined Operation Condor. His government repressed the protests that surged as a result of inflation.