Is this a misguided idea? That different ideologies, such as ‘vanilla’ Marxist-Leninism are more applicable to more industrialized countries, or perhaps countries closer to the imperial core, while ideologies such as MLM are more applicable to the most imperialized, agragrian/feudal countries of the world?
Dogmatic MLMs are like those who think they can do a protracted people’s war in an industrialized country like Italy even though the tactic was specifically formulated for a largely peasant country, or those that hold up the words of Gonzalo like it’s the Bible. Honestly, a principled MLM shouldn’t be much different than a principled ML. Both need to study Mao, and both need to study material conditions. Of course there are good aspects of MLM, we should integrate them, I just don’t see why they need their own tendency name.
Cool, I think that’s the same conclusion I’ve come to aswell. Haven’t been able to put words to it that well though. What are your thoughts on Gonzalo in general?
I don’t know enough about Guzman to be certain, but what I know isn’t exactly positive. Based on the Badempanada video he seems pretty bad. Killing dogs and placing using them to bring attention to your denouncement of Deng Xiaoping, throwing scalding water on babies, and killing indigenous people are all definitely red flags. However, BE has had some pretty bad takes so I will take what he said with a grain of salt. On one hand I’ve heard the left’s image has been tarnished in Peru by him and current revolutionaries don’t associate with his group, on the other hand he almost led a successful revolution. I heard recently he was inspired by seeing the cultural revolution in China and even that I don’t know what to think of. I’ve heard many Chinese socialists have since denounced it and it could have inspired his adventurism, but that practice in Crit and self-crit might be part of why China’s still standing. I honestly need to hear it from the Maoist side before I’m absolutely sure.