From what I understand the boiling babies thing is kind of a meme exaggeration but he did fully admit to ordering the massacre of a village where 25% of the victims were under the age of 18, and several more were women(including pregnant ones) or elderly. And also that parts of the massacre included scalding people with boiling water, havent seen specifically that it was the children who were tortured in this manner.
He does kinda half heartedly call these actions “excesses” but he says that it would be more counterproductive to put restrictions on the revolution to halt things or some shit, and that the explicit goal of spreading fear of the Shining Path was achieved, so pure terror tactics.
During the Chinese civil war, didn’t the CCP have a conscious strategy of treating civilians well and punishing those among their own ranks who transgressed against civilians?
That seems like a better strategy for a guerilla movement that depends on the support of the common people to succeed.
I havent read much on the civil war but if that is the case thats a very obviously better tactic. The Shining Path shit of revenge killings and public displays of violence like nailing dogs to telephone poles is just making yourself look like a cartel. Which if the stuff Ive seen about them later on of them being involved in the drug trade is accurate, is what they basically became.
Its like he saw the critique of propaganda of the deed(“This bullshit only scares people cause they see nothing but the bombs and random shootings and the target gets replaced anyways”) and decided “But wait, what if we target the people directly for the actions of single individuals!?”
From what I understand the boiling babies thing is kind of a meme exaggeration but he did fully admit to ordering the massacre of a village where 25% of the victims were under the age of 18, and several more were women(including pregnant ones) or elderly. And also that parts of the massacre included scalding people with boiling water, havent seen specifically that it was the children who were tortured in this manner.
He does kinda half heartedly call these actions “excesses” but he says that it would be more counterproductive to put restrictions on the revolution to halt things or some shit, and that the explicit goal of spreading fear of the Shining Path was achieved, so pure terror tactics.
During the Chinese civil war, didn’t the CCP have a conscious strategy of treating civilians well and punishing those among their own ranks who transgressed against civilians?
That seems like a better strategy for a guerilla movement that depends on the support of the common people to succeed.
edit your comment. we only use CPC here
I havent read much on the civil war but if that is the case thats a very obviously better tactic. The Shining Path shit of revenge killings and public displays of violence like nailing dogs to telephone poles is just making yourself look like a cartel. Which if the stuff Ive seen about them later on of them being involved in the drug trade is accurate, is what they basically became.
yep
mods: sorry i fucked up reporting this guy i thought he talked about the CPC but its about the phillippinese, im so sorry
ed. nvm
Oh absolutely, Mao’s strategy of surrounding the cities and whatnot hinges on popular mass support in the countrysides.
That sounds evil, did he realize he was evil?
Its like he saw the critique of propaganda of the deed(“This bullshit only scares people cause they see nothing but the bombs and random shootings and the target gets replaced anyways”) and decided “But wait, what if we target the people directly for the actions of single individuals!?”