HISTORY 166D Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Shining Path, Leninism, Petite Bourgeoisie
27 May 2016
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Lecture 26: the real danger was us invasion to students, sendero luminoso shining path the most violence of all latin american insurgencies . Mariate believed that marxism would open path to revolution. He was almost seen as being semi-divine. Gonzalo thought mixed of marxist leninism with a heavy form of mao however proclaimed socialism. Shining path envisioned a rural peasant against a corrupt capitalist urban society. Wanted to create a utopian society everything would be communal (farming, education, housing) Shining path stood out was it"s a uncommitted to extreme violence and terror. Terror was only way for revolution to succeed all political power comes from the barrel of a gun. Violence is a universal law (beheadings, castrations, disendowment. Town mayors were murdered by the shining path these government employees were reps of the state (thus you start with the people being employed by state)
