Another One of The Old True Believers Gone

WuWei · 2021-09-11T17:59:30.947Z

Leader and founder of Peruvian Shining Path rebel group dies in prison | CNN

Abimael Guzman, the founder of the Peruvian rebel group Shining Path, known as ‘Sendero Luminoso’ in Spanish, died in prison on Saturday, according to the country’s National Penitentiary Institute. He was 86.

Rot in hell, murderous scum.

Bill.in.PA · 2021-09-11T18:04:33.792Z

In the US our Marxist terrorists rarely go to prison. Instead they become mentors for the next generation of Marxist leaders.

The Hill – 24 Sep 08

Obama and Bill Ayers: Together from the Beginning

Barack Obama has said repeatedly that his association with ’60s radical Bill Ayers, a “radical, leftist, small-‘c’ communist,” as he recently described himself, and one of the fou…

Breitbart – 24 Jun 20

BLM Founder Mentored by Ex-Domestic Terrorist Worked with Bill Ayers

The co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement was the protégé of a communist-supporting domestic terrorist for over a decade.

Smyrna · 2021-09-11T18:19:05.455Z

carrying out bombings and assassination operations, which by official accounts killed more than 30,000 Peruvians during the next 20 years.

Another 30,000 Peruvians died at the hands of the government and paramilitary groups in the fight against the group, a government commission said in 2003.

60,000 died as a result

Liberty323 · 2021-09-11T18:20:00.165Z

Awwww what a shame. So anyway, think the Yankees might start winning again?

WuWei · 2021-09-12T10:21:43.087Z

Guzman was a college professor.

bigtwnvin · 2021-09-12T14:35:32.340Z

So is Bill Ayers.

Janet_Miller · 2021-09-12T15:39:35.422Z

Good riddance to bad rubbish

WuWei · 2021-09-12T15:48:59.817Z

bigtwnvin:

So is Bill Ayers.

Columbia U. Critical pedagogy.

bigtwnvin · 2021-09-12T16:00:30.342Z

Had to look that one up. And yes

WuWei · 2021-09-12T16:17:58.579Z

bigtwnvin:

Had to look that one up. And yes

They call Marcuse “an obscure this and that…”

He was the father of The New Left.

en.m.wikipedia.org

New Left

The New Left was a broad political movement that emerged from the counterculture of the 1960s and continued through the 1970s. It consisted of activists in the Western world who, in reaction to the era's liberal establishment, campaigned for freer lifestyles on a broad range of social issues such as feminism, gay rights, drug policy reforms, and gender relations. The New Left differs from the traditional left in that it tended to acknowledge the struggle for various forms of social justice, w So...

TheRedComet · 2021-09-12T16:23:45.428Z

I admit I had no idea who he was.

Doing some basic reading, it appears that he should have been taken care of in 1992 in the most violent way possible.

Good riddance to a piece of trash.

Rurudyne · 2021-09-12T16:27:47.541Z

If the foul influences of supposedly unimportant men like Gramsci or Marcuse disappeared from the lives and thought processes of Leftwingers would the new them even recognize themselves in their own thoughts?

WuWei · 2021-09-12T16:29:48.360Z

Rurudyne:

If the foul influences of supposedly unimportant men like Gramsci or Marcuse disappeared from the lives and thought processes of Leftwingers would the new them even recognize themselves in their own thoughts?

Interesting question. No, I don’t believe so. The ends justify the means. Just look at how they rationalize the purges.

Marcuse was holding Mao up as an example while the “Culture Revolution” was murdering millions.

Rurudyne · 2021-09-12T16:30:58.931Z

Well, you can’t be useful to Soviet style tyrants without being an idiot.

WuWei · 2021-09-12T16:32:49.391Z

The thing about it is, the diagnosis is not wrong (at least not always completely.)

It’s the prescription that is horrible.

Rurudyne · 2021-09-12T16:35:23.742Z

Prescriptions demanding a certain diagnosis is more like it.

WuWei · 2021-09-12T16:36:26.769Z

Rurudyne:

Prescriptions demanding a certain diagnosis is more like it.

You have a point.