How difficult is it to be God

Ideology and political violence in the Shining Path

Authors

  • Carlos Iván Degregori Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (Lima, Perú)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36901/allpanchis.v21i34.902

Keywords:

Peru, social violence

Abstract

The Communist Party of Peru "Shining Path" (PCP-SL) emerged from the encounter, which took place in the 1960s and 1970s in Ayacucho, between a mestizo provincial intellectual elite and a provincial, Andean and mestizo university youth (see: Degregory 1985). Why is the political party that is born as a product of that meeting capable of developing such a degree of violence? What factors in Peruvian history and in the culture of the two constitutive social nuclei of SL make this possible? Why when they "communicate" with other political and social actors is it only in terms of absolute confrontation?

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Published

1989-12-08

How to Cite

How difficult is it to be God: Ideology and political violence in the Shining Path. (1989). Allpanchis, 21(34), 117-139. https://doi.org/10.36901/allpanchis.v21i34.902

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