File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1998/marxism-thaxis.9803, message 1219


Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:57:40 +0000
From: Mark Jones <Jones_M-AT-netcomuk.co.uk>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Re: Peruvian Maoism


Didn't take long for the tame Senderologists to show their head, did it?
The problem with the kind of thinking Rob Saute exemplifies is that his
alternative is, well, what they've got: Fujimori and all the things which give
him aid and comfort. Jim Craven asks why the bile? I believe it's this: the
left is so exercised by the PCP's alleged 'human rights' violations because the
answer the PCP gave to left-wing hypocrisy was definitive.

That's why it hurts.

Mark

Robert Saute, CUNY Grad Center wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Louis Proyect wrote:
>
> > We sometimes forget that the Shining Path is in a war
> > with the Peruvian state and not the American left and its allies in Peru.
>
>         Of course, Louis Proyect is partially correct in the above
> statement.  The Communist Party of Peru/Shining Path/Sendero Luminoso is
> not at war with the U.S. Left; they could probably care less.  On the
> other hand, many a labor leader, leftist party militant, shanty-town
> organizer or peasant activist killed at the hands of Sendero Luminoso
> cadre might from the grave, were that possible, find his characterization
> of Shining Path's enemies a bit disingenuous.  Seen through the lens of a
> debate on just how semi-feudal Peru is or is not, the endless
> preoccupation with human rights does seem to be so much drivel.
>
>         Sub-comandante Marcos take heed, knock off a few human rights
> workers from the Catholic Church, execute a doctor or two from San
> Cristobal, murder local activists from the PRD, and Zapatista stock will
> rise in Lou's eyes.
>
> May a thousand dead dogs hang from the lampposts of a land purged of petty
> bourgeois revisionists and misleaders of the working class!
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> Robert Saute
>
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