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Later that decade, radicals of the New Left adopted the slogan "No enemies on the left," welcoming every loony Maoist and Trotskyite in the common struggle against the "system." Among the New Left's many political mistakes, this refusal to divorce extremists may have been the worst...
PLAINCLOTHES ANTITERRORIST POLICE HAD BEEN tracking the movements of a lithe young couple in their middle-class home in a Lima suburb for weeks, suspecting that they were members of Peru's Maoist Shining Path guerrilla movement. Their huge purchases of food, liquor and clothing in sizes much too large for themselves suggested that they had company in the house. Butts of Winston cigarettes in the trash led the detectives to believe that the guest might be none other than the group's elusive and ruthless founder, Abimael Guzman, who went underground in the late 1970s. When the cops finally...
...quoted in Rolling Stone, says he feels the "duty to warn kids of false music that's claiming to be underground or alternative," while his band itself is roundly criticized for selling out. Rampant accusations of cheesiness from all sides give this kind of continuous conflict a kind of Maoist tone--no one is ever revolutionary enough. Nothing sticks together...
...takes a million deaths to do it, that's just fine with Sendero. The only nice thing about Sendero is that it's not getting much help--yet--from the outside. Guzman reviled the Soviet Union, and China hasn't stepped in to help out these Maoist purists (remember, Deng Xiaoping got purged a few times during the Cultural Revolution...
...when the Cultural Revolution gripped China, a group of "Chairman Mao's True Soldiers" force Hsun-ching to join the Maoist movement and work in a commune. Ten years later, Hsun-Ching gains his freedom and returns home. Finding his mentor almost dead, Hsun-Ching embarks for America to complete the quest for the Laughing Sutra...