I actually remember talking to a guy from the LLCO online who said their organization "works with" the NPA and the Naxals. This was two-ish years ago so I apologize if my facts are kind of hazy. I was sure he was lying since I don't understand how a group as dedicated as this would be taking cues from a white guy in Denver.
Good documentary about the NPA in the Philippines
Samuel Powell
William Collins
Everytime
Jaxson Diaz
It's true tho. The way the NPA makes it money to fund its campaigns is through extracting taxes from the propertied classes. They can't collectivize the people they tax because then they'd have no income to fund their campaign. Whenever anyone talks negatively about the NPA in the Philippines this is the first thing that they talk about.
He's wrong about communism, and he's wrong about the corrupt politicians part. Every politician in the Philippines is corrupt, every landowner and capitalist is corrupt; there's no such thing as a 'good' capitalist, and most of the members of propertied classes inherited their fortune from their parents, they didn't 'earn' anything.
Jace Phillips
There is literally nothing wrong with that though. What other option do they have?
Nicholas Garcia
The FARC did this in Colombia as well
Zachary Cooper
the FARC aren't a model to follow
Cameron Mitchell
There's your problem.
Any group that shows the faces of their alleged cadres in countries which are known to kill leftist activists are obvious frauds.
Charles Gonzalez
Because Maoism was never intended for the First World to begin with.
Easton Butler
This is Zig Forums tier bullshit
Angel Clark
Because that means they become dependent upon the institution of private property and exploitation. They cannot collectivize - threaten the institutions of the ruling class - because to do so would undermine the material foundation of their politics.
The truth of politics is that people ultimately act in social interest based around a specific organization of economy. When people don't see a direct way to realize their own social interest, the movement becomes dominated by bourgeois moralism and bourgeois interests, which is what I've seen so far in left-wing nationalist and democratic movements such as the Philippine Maoist movement. If the direction of organization doesn't lead to a change in the organization of economy, that movement will be bound to interests of the ruling class.
Don't look at the Philippine Left as some sort of alternative to the contemporary malaise that infects the Western Left. The Philippine Left has all the same problems as the rest of the Left around the world; it's just the Philippine Left is larger and more violent.