Tag: Communist China

The (Maoist) Shining Path & Abimael Guzman

Between 1964 and 1980, the Shining Path followed a path of primarily ideological agitation against this revisionism, but in 1980, Abimael Guzman changed the operating stance of the Shining Path to one of Revolutionary armed struggle. This was in response to the ever growing influence of the United States in Peru, and the intensification of government-led massacres carried-out against the ordinary Peruvian people (the majority of which were comprised of masses of peasantry, as was the case with pre-Revolutionary China).

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Aum Shinrikyo (Аум Синрике) in Post-Soviet Russia (1991-1995)

In 1989, Shoko Asahara gave the Dalai Lama one thousand US dollars, in return, the Dalai Lama gave the Japanese a “diploma” and a letter of recommendation. In this letter, addressed to the competent authorities of Tokyo, the Dalai Lama called Shoko Asahara “a very capable spiritual mentor” and defined the sect “Aum Shinrikyo” as “a legitimate distributor of Mahayana Buddhism and a sect that can push the public toward kindness.” The Dalai Lama in the letter even asked the relevant Tokyo authorities “to release the Aum Shinrikyo sect from taxation.”

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