Most of the article is pretty levelheaded, but this got a chuckle out of me:
The Communist Party of Peru did not “boil children alive”. I have seen nothing like this written anywhere. They did, apparently, use scalding water as a method of execution, along with stones and machetes. They did, also, engage in the act of killing infants, elderly people, and pregnant women at the village of Lucanamarca in 1983.
Technically they didn’t boil babies, they just sometimes executed people with scalded water, and some of the people they executed were babies.
Bonus from the comments:
MLM vernacular is so god damn cringe, I just can’t with this smug, self-gratifying crap. Like is it some kind of precondition to be an MLM to shoehorn the term “revisionist” in every single paragraph of every single text you write? It’s so excessive and annoying
I think its some kind of drinking game.
My liver hurts on mere thought.
I mean, it is literally the only thing most MLMs believe distinguish them from MLs. They would be MLs except for all the terrible things we did, but all the terrible things can be explained by revisionism, and they would do everything we did without the bad things because they are “anti-revisionist”. All the bad things they’ll do will only be done to the reactionaries and the MLs, because it’s “anti-revisionist” to do so.
Essentially, it’s a transplantation of the moral binary, which ironically makes it revisionism.
Marx wanted to revise parts of Capital Volume 1, he’s a revisionist (!!!)