>>1603965>Maoists in India and the Philippines have been fighting for over 50 years and are nowhere closer to taking power than they were in the 60s.Objectively untrue. The Filipino movement is surging in size and popularity at the moment, and the Indian Maoists have succeeded in re-achieving unity after the disintegration of the CPI(ML), this unity being stronger for honestly undergoing serious self-criticism and recognizing the errors of the CPI(ML)'s practice and that of their sister party in Nepal. These are objectively positive trends in the movement.
>In fact they control less territory and command less popular support than ever. Filipinos clearly prefer Duterte and Bongbong to the NPA, granting both landslide victories.Tell me, who owns the company that produced the election machines in the last Filipino election? It's pretty well accepted that the last elections were rigged to hell and back. And even if they weren't are we seriously going to accept bourgeois elections as an accurate measurement of the popularity of a people's war based principally in the most disenfranchised regions of the country?
>In Peru, Gonzalo said the quiet part out loud that he would go full Pol Pot if he won and lost what support he had.The idea that going "full Pol Pot" is somehow the secret agenda of Maoists and Maoism is cute. Wikipedia has a better analysis of why the people's war in Peru failed.
>In Nepal, Maoists did win, but then abandoned trying to achieve a socialist state and just begged the IMF for handouts.What exactly are you trying to argue here, that Prachanda's opportunism is reflective of the wider Maoist movement despite their wholesale denunciation of him? Not to mention it's not like Prachanda is the first communist to gain power and then take on a liberal reformist stance. See: the vast majority of Soviet-backed African states between 1970-90. The lessons of Nepal are important to the Maoist movement and Maoism has long moved on.
>Maoism just seems to be another failed ideology like Trotskyism at best, and mindless terrorism at worst. And let's not forget to mention the cringe Maoists in the first world who are obsessed with J. Sakai, and who believe that conservative racialPost too long. Click here to view the full text.