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Michael Harrison #moonbat michaelharrison.org.uk

[From “The Peruvian Revolution”]

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that Khrushchev’s denunciation of Comrade Stalin[…]in 1956 caused chaos in the International Communist Movement. For a few years this issue was ‘played out’ quietly within individual parties and internationally, in bi-partisan meetings

The Communist Party of China (CPC) still seemed to think that the renegades and opportunists could be convinced to return to the revolutionary path[…]
However, by 1960 the Revisionists, ideologically weak as they were long before the death of Comrade Stalin, had gained supremacy in various parties of the world[…]
It became obvious that there was no way that the rift between the revisionists and revolutionary[…]could be healed[…]
Within weeks of the death of Comrade Mao Tse-tung in September 1976, the revisionist and ‘capitalist-roaders’[…]were able to gain control by a vicious coup d’etat[…]
Whereas most Parties worldwide seemed to move around like chickens with their heads cut off, no longer having a society which was attempting to build Socialism on which they could hang their hats. the Communist Party of Peru (Sendero Luminoso) (CPP(SL), on 17th May 1980 declared the beginning of the ‘People’s War’

From small beginnings yet with intelligent, clever and ideologically sound political leadership this struggle against the Peruvian State was able, in the short period of twelve years, to really pose a viable threat to the old order

Then, for reasons which I, at least, don’t understand, the leadership of the CPP(SL) made a series of serious mistakes which effectively destroyed that amazing revolutionary movement in less than a couple of years. There were some who continued (and still continue) to fight on but the momentum was lost[…]
The People’s War had given a great deal of hope not only to the people of Peru but to those who are oppressed and exploited throughout the world. In that sense the failure in Peru didn’t just effect Peruvians

Michael Harrison #moonbat michaelharrison.org.uk

[From “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)”]

Considering that the United States imperialist[…]were stopped in their tracks in their desire to dominate an erstwhile ally (in the fight against Japanese militaristic fascism) in a hugely destructive war[…]knowledge of the country that we now know as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is bordering on the abysmal

Some will argue that this is due to the ‘isolationist’ approach[…]This comes from a misreading of the history, the current situation and the role that the most dominant imperialist power (for the time being) has in shaping the perception of those countries that dare to refuse to kowtow to the bully’s threats, misinformation and attempts at so-called ‘regime change’[…]
The history of the last just over a hundred years demonstrates that capitalism/imperialism will do whatever it can[…]
So here we have a number of examples where capitalist/imperialist nations had lied, cheated, reneged on agreements, used direct military force (often even breaking international laws they themselves had made or changing them if they didn’t suit), used malcontents and mercenaries to undermine the economy and political stability in sovereign countries, used sabotage and murder to pursue their goals of destruction of various countries in order to get them to kowtow to the will of the American dollar and imperialist interests

Added to that we have countless examples of where imperialist nations had attempted to crush national liberation movements against colonialism and especially the many examples of where the United States, directly or indirectly, intervened in various countries in South and Latin America if governments or movements were considered as challenging US hegemony in that part of the world[…]
So ‘isolated’ the DPRK might be (just as Albania during its Socialist period prior to 1991) but an isolation that has been imposed upon it as the country doesn’t accept the world hegemony