Usually the leaders capture is the symptom of the dismantling of a movement not it’s direct cause. The shining path was utterly dependent on Gonzalo to function.

Here’s the one I have: the shining path discredited the idea of a revolutionary socialist movement in a society that desperately needs one. The thing about the shining path manifesto is it reads like a parody of what a Imperialist shill thinks communism is. And after Gonzalo was out of the picture the movement declined repidly(Don’t get me wrong, Fujimori and his ilk are among the worst murderous neoliberal sellout ghouls imaginable.) Revolutionary movements should be last because they are supported by the masses not because their cult leader was captured. A good example of a revolutionary movement gone correctly for example os Bolivia right next door and MAS. When Evo got taken out of the picture by the coup the movement survived because it was built among the masses and they were able to struggle against the neoliberal regime and win their freedom.

I’d recommend BadEmpenada’s video on the shining path for more details he goes into far more detail than I can here.

Everything I know about this incident i know against my own will.

Their brains are basically hard wired to form basic contradictions and accept them unquestioningly as fact.

China is making it harder for the Imperial core to loot the global south and this slow strangling of the lifeline of capitalist imperialism can only result in the imperialist power structure becoming gradually more and more brittle.

The war in Ukraine will not be over so long as Crimea is occupied by Russia. ftfy

To the last Ukrainian, I see

As someone who has a slightly unhealthy obsession with shipwrecks and ships in general, it’s mostly because compared to most ship disasters, the Titanic has much more information publically available and has a greater presence in modern culture, resulting in more books movies and other things being made on it than compared to something like literally any lake freighter accident which is much more horrific and much more unsurvivable than the Titanic. The general public however does have more familiarity to the Titanic because of the type of people who went down on it. The Titanic claimed the lives of people such as John Jacob Astor who was the 12th rich person in the world when he died, if I recall correctly, while the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald , for instance were all working class sailors from the Great Lakes.

Dear Libs and Fash,

Cope.