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The cult of personality and purges of party leadership are common phenomena in the development of Communist orthodoxy, although they are certainly not the exclusive preserve of the left. Similar developments can be found in fascist movements as well as in many authoritarian governments and their corresponding parties.
This chapter combines much of the article “The War of the Philosopher King,” The New Republic, June 18, 1990, pp. 15–22, with permission of the author and the editors, with new material written for this volume. The new material covers the life and experience of Luis Kawata Makabe and the discussion of building and splitting the party. This material has been translated from Spanish by the editor and combined with The New Republic material to complete the chapter as it appears here.
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Notes
On the 1965 guerrilla outbreak in Peru, see Richard Gott, Rural Guerrillas in Latin America (London: Penguin, 1973); Peru, Las guerrillas en el Perú y su represión (Lima: Ministerio de Guerra, 1966); Héctor Béjar, Perú 1965: Apuntes sobre una experiencia guerrillera (Havana: Casa de las Americas, 1969); General Armando Artola, ¡Subversión! (Lima, 1976).
Gott, Rural Guerrillas’, Regis Debray, Revolution in the Revolution (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1967).
Partido Comunista del Perú (SL), “Bases de discusión (linea militar),” El Diario, January 6, 1988.
Patricio Ricketts, “Tiburón o loma?” Caretas (Lima), 638, March 2, 1981.
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Gorriti, G. (1994). Shining Path’s Stalin and Trotsky. In: Palmer, D.S. (eds) The Shining Path of Peru. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-05210-0_8
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