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- Subject: "Ms" Mag Trashes Peru's Communists
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- Via The NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit
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- from the Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM)
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- MIM Notes, Issue 70: November, 1992
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- Ms. magazine trashes PCP in the name of "feminism"
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- by MC31
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- In the name of power for women, the July/August issue of Ms.
- magazine blasts the Communist Party of Peru (PCP), specifically
- denouncing the killing of Maria Elena Moyano.
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- The article explains that even some of Peru's poorest women are
- helping others by providing local food and Glass of Milk programs
- "to a population abandoned by the government."(1) Ms. recognizes
- that the Peruvian state is one of the most brutal in the world
- today, but Ms. speaks highly of those who didn't "take to the
- streets" during the worst of economic times in Peru, and instead
- went to a local soup kitchen to have a hot meal that day.
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- One reformist "community organizer" quoted in the article said
- that women "'want progress. They aren't exactly clear how to get
- there, but they know they're going. They're betting on something
- that they're making up along the way.'"
-
- PCP members practice the science of Maoism and do know exactly
- where they are going and how to get there. But Ms. still prefers
- the vague analysis and goals of the reformists to the hard-hitting
- Maoist ideology and revolutionary practice.
-
- The article refers to polls supposedly showing that Fujimori's
- government has 70-80% support among the people. If that's so, what
- are he and the military so worried about? How is that the PCP
- (referred to as the "Shining Path" in Ms. and elsewhere) controls
- so much territory and has as much support as it does? Ms. claims
- that the PCP attacks mostly civilians, but won't mention that the
- guerillas target lackeys of the fascist state (who do not all ear
- uniforms), enemies in a people's war.
-
- After blaming the PCP for killing Moyano, for which the PCP has
- claimed credit and provided its reasons to the people (see MIM
- Notes 67), Ms. goes on to claim that the PCP itself is a
- patriarchal movement that suppresses its women members. (Note they
- spend an entire article discussing the death of one woman and
- barely touch the Fujimori dictatorship's killing of thousands of
- PCP cadres and civilians, many of whom are women.) In other words,
- First World white women who read Ms. can sift through the facts
- and decide their own fates, but poor Peruvian women are just
- stupid followers of a male oppressor.
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- Ms. offers no evidence of the suppression of PCP women, and
- further did not interview women cadres to see what they thought
- about handing out meals to some people versus organizing for
- revolution so all Peruvians could eat. The women organizers of the
- grassroots reformist groups are glorified while revolutionary
- women are admonished for their political work.
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- Ms. helped make great strides for First World women in the 1970s.
- It is now attempting to build a multi-cultural base by having an
- international section in which to trash Third World revolutionary
- movements which will ultimately make a better world for most women
- of the world.
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- Notes: "Peru: The Government, the Rebels, And the Women in
- Between" Ms. July/August 1992, p. 14-15.
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