Not the first, neither the last time it will happen. The Peruvian Marxist-Leninist thinker José Carlos Mariategui used to refer positively about Incan times, where, in his opinion, the natives would practice primitive communism, with a somewhat collective ownership of the means of production until the arrival of the Spanish, who would conquer the natives and implement feudalism in Peru.
edit: at least, its that what i remember from reading his 7 Essays.
Do you think that the Filipino police only used those guns to combat actual ISIS terrorists? They probably killed communists or worse, ordinary people with those weapons later. Even if China isn’t the main supplier of the Philippines, they are still involved.
And about Nepal, Nepalese Maoists controlled 80% of the country before capitulating, and managed to abolish a literal feudal monarchy. How many parties post-1991 did anything close to that? Its true there’s a lot of opportunism in Nepal nowadays, but the parties are slowly starting to merge into the RCPN.
Equating China to the US is wrong, but their development since Mao’s death and the takeover of the party by the capitalist roaders hasn’t been socialist in any sort.
Also, Maoists don’t see China as potential allies because China calls them ultras and routinely sells guns to the reactionary Filipino and Indian (and the former Nepali government) governments to shoot them.
Not the first, neither the last time it will happen. The Peruvian Marxist-Leninist thinker José Carlos Mariategui used to refer positively about Incan times, where, in his opinion, the natives would practice primitive communism, with a somewhat collective ownership of the means of production until the arrival of the Spanish, who would conquer the natives and implement feudalism in Peru.
edit: at least, its that what i remember from reading his 7 Essays.