We must assume that the author has an honest starting point, but one that is incredibly banal. The analysis in this article is not interesting because it is factual or difficult to answer, but because it contains a typical criticism against the CPP. He accuses them of Focoism, a direction that the CPP has always warned against. The attempted “analysis” is that the CPP did not work closely with the people, and that they instead “destroyed everything and everyone that stood in their war” and that this was why they lost support. He cites the Lucanamarca massacre to claim that the CPP carried out terror against the people. He writes that a revolution can never succeed by forcing peasants and workers to participate. He writes that the CPP destroyed the “left-wing” and the proletariat’s class organizations, that they carried out sabotages “without any goals or meaning from a military standpoint,” that they destroyed peasant society, and carried out massacres.

He claims that people in Peru have had strained relations toward everything that can be called socialist politics and popular organizing, all because of the CPP. He writes that the activities of the CPP fell apart throughout the 1990s, and insists that the party itself claims that the oppression by the state apparatus was the cause – all without citing any sources. It was not long before they stood forth as a purely terrorist group that carried out murders against union members, peasant leaders, and activists who were against their struggle. But Sendero Luminoso did not have any analysis of the conditions in the country and had fatal errors in their decisions regarding armed struggle, which made it so that the Senderistas became more and more pressured. The conditions in Peru were miserable and one would believe that everything was in place for a successful uprising.

In January 2017, the periodical Revolusjon! published an article written by Steinar Eraker, where the CPP has been accused of waging “terror against the people” and for being a “counterrevolutionary force” and a “tool for imperialism”. The Periodical Revolusjon! and Eraker’s Critique The originally Hoxhaist periodical Revolusjon! has also published such a critique in Norwegian. The Communist Party of Peru (CPP) has been criticized by enemies, opponents, and by people who have not understood their line and the people’s war in Peru. This is an excerpt from a forthcoming article on the people’s war in Peru.

Critique of hoxhaism