GENERAL POLITICAL AND MILITARY LINE

[Editor's Note. The following is a document of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) published in February 1994. This document summarizes the essential parts of the General Political Line and its center, the military line.]

Long Live President Gonzalo and His Powerful Thought!

Specifications on President Gonzalo (PG), the General Political Line and the Contributions to the World Revolution:

"Without Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (MLM), Gonzalo Thought (GT) can not be conceived, because GT is the creative application to our reality. The key question is the understanding of the historical development of the ideology of the proletariat, of its three phases molded into MLM, with Maoism as the principal one. And principally in the application of MLM as universal truth to the concrete conditions of the Peruvian revolution. From this we conclude that Gonzalo Thought is specifically principal for the PCP and the revolution it leads."

"The most substantial and developed part of Gonzalo Thought (GT) is found in the General Political Line of the Party. This Thought directly supports the line and its five elements, since it is the point of departure of this principle as it understands and firmly maintains the line of the program."

"To Study and principally to apply GT is decisive in order to better and more thoroughly serve the Party, the development of the People's War and the world proletarian revolution. In the same manner learning from PG is decisive to serve wholeheartedly the people."

FIRST CONGRESS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF PERU

I. International Line

  1. Struggle to impose Maoism as the new, third and superior stage of Marxism.
  2. World People's War as a response to imperialist World War.
  3. The fundamental contradictions and their solution: The principal contradiction.
  4. The three moments of the world revolution: strategic offensive in the world revolution.
  5. Develop bases for strategy and tactics in the world revolution.
  6. The process of Marxism.
  7. Definition of the total and complete bankruptcy of contemporary revisionism.
  8. Combat imperialism, revisionism and world reaction implacably and unstoppably.

II. Line Of The Democratic Revolution

How the Peruvian revolution is perceived: Democratic revolution, socialist revolution and proletarian cultural revolution until Communism (proposed as a third type of revolution).

  1. Generalization of bureaucratic capitalism.
  2. The character of Peruvian society, its fundamental contradictions and the principal contradiction.
  3. On the State: The Old State and New State.
  4. The essence of the democratic revolution: Peasant war led by the PCP by means of People's War.

III. Military Line

  1. Reaffirm the principle of revolutionary violence as an universal law.
  2. Unified People's War and the importance of Initiation.
  3. Specification of the Bases of Support.
  4. Strategic development. Strategic plan of developemnt.
  5. The five parts of a campaign.
  6. The five phases of action.
  7. The Strategic Operational Plans.
  8. Mass work through the People's Army.

IV. Line Of Construction Of The Three Instruments Of The Revolution

  1. Principle of construction.
  2. Militarization of the Communist Parties and concentric construction.
  3. Construction of the People's Guerrilla Army. Incorporation of the militia.
  4. The rural front: the New State (People's Committees, base areas and People's Democratic Republic in formation towards the People's Republic of Peru). The urban front, Revolutionary Movement in Defense of the People (MRDP).
  5. The six forms of the New Power: Organizational Committee of the People's Power, People's Committees of parallel power, People's Committees, Open People's Committees and Committee of People's Struggle.
  6. Militancy: Communists first and foremost, fighters and administrators.
  7. Strategy of Construction.

V. Mass Line

  1. Reaffirming the principle "the masses make history" and "it is right to rebel."
  2. The specific weight of the masses in the world revolution (serving to define it).
  3. Mass work in and for the People's War. The countryside. Leadership in the cities.
  4. The struggle for wages and living conditons serving the seizure of power.
  5. The generated organisms, militarized in the countryside and specification for the cities.
  6. Law of incorporation of the masses in the People's War.
  7. The mass line is the only tactic of MLM-GT
  8. Scientific organization of poverty.
  9. The armed sea of masses.

Peru, February 1994.
Central Committee
Communist Party of Peru.