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Shining Path
The
Communist Party of Peru
(Spanish:
Partido Comunista del Perú
), more commonly known as the
Shining Path
(
Sendero Luminoso
), is a
Maoist
guerrilla
insurgent
organization in
Peru
. When it first launched the
internal conflict in Peru
in 1980, its stated goal was to replace what it saw as
bourgeois
democracy with "
New Democracy
". The Shining Path believed that by establishing a
dictatorship of the proletariat
, inducing
cultural revolution
, and eventually sparking
world revolution
, they could arrive at pure
communism
. Their representatives said that existing
socialist countries
were
revisionist
, and they claimed to be the
vanguard
of the world communist movement. The Shining Path's ideology and tactics have been influential among other Maoist
insurgent
groups, notably the
Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
and other
Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
-affiliated organizations.
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