Gonzalo

I'm surprised Gonzalo doesn't get brought up by anticommunists more. He's a Peruvian Pol Pot. Baby boiling is such an obvious addition to the regular 100 stallilion dead vuvuzela no iphone shit.

Because ultimately the Khmer Rouge doesn’t have a successful legacy that needs debunking. We all know how successful the USSR was and how China continues to be. The capitalists need to be able to see “ok sure the commies maybe had incredible growth and improvement of living standards… but they killed a gajillion people to do it.”
- There's also the fact that America put Pol Pot in power and pressured China to back him as well. Right after Vietnam ended, the Vietnamese went to liberate Cambodia. Vietnam decided to fight China and the US at the same time over this.
  Pol Pot makes America look horrible. Think about it from the chud perspective, America sided with China over a genocidal dictator. Plus, a soft expansion of the Vietnam war after there was already a treaty signed
They attack the ones that succeeded in achieving revolution. They're perfectly fine with leftists following the theory that fails.
Pol Pot should be THE thing that anticommunist bring first, but their brainpan render them unable to learn more than two (2) ebil gommunists names
- I’ve heard the line “communists and marxists need to answer for Pol Pot”
  It was a podcast though
did that actually happen, do you know?
I don't really know much about shining path, and I tend to automatically disbelieve anything a settler colonial state like Peru or the US etc says, especially when its blood libel level outrageous.
- It's something that got broken telephoned into a meme. IIRC a village lynched a local party leader and in retaliation the local cadre violently attacked the village. In the attack they threw boiling water at people, including pregnant women, and later Gonzalo made a somewhat unapologetic statement on the attack.
- They admitted to killing babies, and they were proven to have boiled peasants alive.
  People have put two and two together, but there’s no concrete proof of boiling babies IIRC. However, the other two are damning enough without combining them
- It's almost certaintly made up, but it's not like that's ever stopped anticommunists.
- yeah, to it seems like one of those things where if america or its allies commits war crimes its all ok and 'just the nature of warfare' and 'a few bad apples' but we still gotta support Da Twoops, but if foreigners do it, its a repudiation of their entire leadership, ideology, and humanity.
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A true revolutionary prevents cross-contamination in the kitchen by properly sanitizing anything that may have come in contact with raw meat before proceeding with the rest of the food prep

A true revolutionary washes their chicken in the sink and splashes salmonella around their kitchen
- A true revolutionary farts into the cushion to stifle the odor
- very angry yall apparently don't know how to clean your kitchen

im a marxist-bidetist

if you're not washing your ass you're just another agent of capitalism

Jordan Peterson: you aren't allowed to have a political opinion until you clean your room.
Me, a Marxist-Bidetist: you aren't allowed to have a political opinion until you clean your butthole.
I tend to reject gatekeeping, but this is one gate I think we should keep around.
- Hot take: I have been in a few leftist org meetings where it felt like there were a number of members who could have benefited from some personal hygiene lessons.
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The western leftist need for moral purity in their political strain that serves as little more than a religious effigy. Because we're so far from actually gaining any sort of power as a communist in the imperial core, people attracted to communism right now basically just have the "at least I'm on the right side of history" as one of the few benefits of becoming a communist. And if you're going to be on the right side of history, you want to be on the most right side of history.
- Many western leftists see politics as a personal quest for atonement and personal virtue, and have little concern for things like pragmatism or seizing power. In fact, doing those things would sully their general utopian purity by marring it with specific pragmatic actions and imperfect policies
While the Peruvian revolution failed, the PCP (CPP is usually Communist Party of Philippines) are notably the one of the only communist parties to have successfully organized and waged a people's war after the 80s (the only other one I can think of is Nepal, who were MLMaoists themselves) and deserves to be studied in the spirit of scientific socialism.
There's a current among Maoists of elevating the PCP and Gonzalo in particular above any of the other active Maoist movements in what's referred as "Gonzaloism". Gonzalo himself has an arguably important place within communist history, but I would not say he's of the particular importance of Marx, Lenin, or Mao like Gonzaloist adherents claim.
- I think Ansarallah in Yemen is more socialist and revolutionary in character than either of those. Same with Hezbollah and the axis of resistance writ large
There are good Maoist groups, like the guerillas in the Philippines or India (whatever might be said of the inefficacy of the latter), but it seems like all the worst groups that claim ML heritage all call themselves Maoist, including several different cults in the US (Austin Red Guard, Black Hammer, and Avakian's cult)
This might be bumping against the sectarianism rules, but what is with people (in the west) who call themselves MLMs or Maoists?
It's like declaring "I'm useless in my local context"
maybe they (in the west) yearn to be in a position to do more than they're able or is wise to do in their circumstances. Some people are desperate or eager and impetuous and don't have much faith in, or find their circumstances too pressing for a slow approach the fruits of which they'll never personally see, the Unionise/organise/electoralism/protest stuff that has also of course manifestly failed in the west.
it'll come down to armed conflict in the end, there's no other way, so I guess some people just kind of jump the gun.

I have a part Peruvian friend. He's definitely left wing like Che and Fidel, but when we saw some pro Gonzalo graffiti, he was like wtf?

I wonder what his reaction would be if he saw that protest on an American campus where white leftists were chanting about how good Gonzalo is a couple years ago
- Idk. They tried to organize another friend of ours work place through vibes. They said just to make a speech in front of the store and workers would join.

Libs walking around with their noses got, unwiped shit in their pants, and morning breath that could smoke out a beehive

Bow down to their calculating rationality

Reposting my all-time best post:
hits bong yeah dude I'm a Marxist-Leninist-bonapartist, not the napoleon one though, this is another napoleon he's from vietnam, wrote like three pamphlets about digging ditches and then burned down a local post office, which he thought harbored american GI's. He did this in the 90's, the dude was integral to leftist thought in my high school.

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A pasta of the caliber only the type of pasta chef that has its own Italian name, use exclusively by interviewes in over produced youtube videos make.

serious question: what did Gonzalo write? I keep seeing maoists telling people to read Gonzalo, but I literally cannot find a single thing this man wrote

- that's actually a good point. People complain about baby boiling, but what if those babies grew up to become hitler?
I don't particularly recommend reading the work of the baby soup guy, but here you go
Usually they mean read Collected Works of the Communist Party of Peru, General Line of PCP, or interview with Gonzalo. Think there's some stuff directly attributed to him that's mostly based on expanding Mariategui.
- Mariátegui is quite good

I mean, yeah basically

As we all know, one flaw of the Bolshevik revolution was that they all shit their pants constantly, Mao corrected this and furthered the immortal science of Marxism.