Besides the outdated liberalism, another current that reactionaries and revisionists activate against the revolutionary conscience ingrained in the masses by the victorious People's War, is the theory of Andean Utopia (messianism, millenarism and incaism). No body can deny the importance of the Andean past, as an integral part of our identity not only to the peasantry, but also to the Andean world and the mestizo, in general. That's a reality. But it is a quite different story to elevate the Andean Utopia to the level of social laws and categories of an ideology, capable of explaining the current political behavior of the peasants, and the migrant peasants who are now living in the cities.Here we find another issue: The life of migrant peasants still resembles the "Andean World," where you see their customs, their artistic creation and festivities, and their folklore. But that's a half truth. To begin with, the imperial ideological penetrations (first by Spain and now by the United States) have vitiated and mystified many of these cultural manifestations. Nowadays, even representatives of the big bourgeoisie wear peasant attire themselves on election time (as the genocidal lackey of imperialism, Fujimori frequently does on TV).
On the other hand, it is the living presence (in theory and practice) of the proletarian ideology, which explains many popular struggles of yesterday, and today also explains the stunning advance of the Peruvian people through the People's War toward the New Power and the New Democracy.
These are the reasons denying the actuality of the Andean Utopia as a "struggle platform" mainly of the peasantry. Then, what do the "scholars" of Andean Utopianism want? There is an obvious answer: As their counterparts of the orthodox liberalism, they want to block the development of revolutionary conscience, the proletarian ideology, and the advance of the People's War. They do the same thing that repulsive revisionism does with the thesis of Mariategui, by presenting the PCP as an indigenist, and incaist. In sum, a metaphysical organization that attempts to roll back history.
In the late 1960's, President Gonzalo and the PCP Central Committee criticized the traffickers and twisters of the Marxist ideas of Mariategui. The PCP refuted the idea that Mariategui was a promoter of the indigenous community, as a historic socialist project. Mariategui recognized the superiority of the economic system of the Incan empire as compared to the one imposed by the Spanish colonialists, but he did not speak about "reconstituting" it, nor did he say that the Incan empire practiced "communism." We are what we are, and there isn't any turn to the past. At the time, President Gonzalo accurately pointed out that the principal problem was the "development of the new" (editor: of the current situation), he meant the development of the road of Mariategui, which the Peruvian masses led by the PCP have been doing so. He stated: " The reactionaries want to make us a bourgeois Mariategui, a petty bourgeois one, and some have said that Mariategui was a populist in the sense that Mariategui developed the pro-peasant thought in Peru, a Mariategui who didn't develop the proletarian concept, but a concept from the peasant view point. That's a lie from head to toe. It's a sovereign treachery. Mariategui is a Marxist. He doesn't have the peasants' viewpoint, because if he did, he would be a petty bourgeois." ("The National Question," Speech by President Gonzalo, University of Huamanga, 1968.)
Nevertheless, some revisionist scholars in Europe and the United States continue to mislead the people by alleging that the People's War in Peru, "has the historic socialist project to reconstitute the Inca history, especially its community organization or Ayllu." This is not an innocent proposition done for lack of information, but an elaborate scheme of imperialism not only to discredit the PCP as "dogmatic," or "polpotian," but to confuse and prevent the international support of the People's War, especially of communists and revolutionaries worldwide. Petty intellectuals of all stripes try to resuscitate the old allegations made by reactionaries in the past (and refuted by the founder of the PCP himself in his time) that Mariategui was a "clericalist" or a "religious man." The source of these distortions was Haya de La Torre and Luis Alberto Sanchez, the spiritual fathers of the fascist and corporative party of the big bourgeois, APRA. The fact that Marx, Lenin, Mao and Chairman Gonzalo use religious analogies to explain issues of materialism dialectic doesn't make them "clericalists." In the early 80's, Senderologist Degregori, an agent of reaction presented as "leftist" in the U.S. liberal magazine NACLA, attempted to coin the label of "cult" to the PCP. His allegation was based on a paragraph of President Gonzalo's speech "For The New Flag . . . " Degregori's manipulation was thoroughly exposed in Peru and abroad, and he never raised it again.
Today, mediocre intellectuals such as the old APRA hack Chang Rodriguez are raising again the torn out rag of "religiosity" of Mariategui again, as a subtle way to slander the PCP as a cult. It is too late for these schemes to prevail, because the genuine supporters of the PCP abroad are conducting a tireless campaign of popularizing the documents of the PCP (especially the works of Mariategui and Chairman Gonzalo.) Toward this end, The New Flag, and the PCP Web Page (http://www.blythe.org/peru-pcp) with an average of 500 visits a day, play an important role.
The PCP upholds, defends and applies the scientific doctrine of the proletariat: Marxism- Leninism-Maoism, Gonzalo Thought. From this viewpoint, the analysis of what represented the ancient communities must be done on the bases of historical materialism. Thus, the Ayllu is a communitary expression of the ancient people's of Peru and its own process of development has "generated a surplus, and consequently, the generation and differentiation of classes, property relations and State." With respect to the problem of the land and the community, it asserts that the Ayllu, "contains the germs that will help the future socialist development." But Mariategui nor the PCP at any time stated that the Ayllu must be "reconstituted." This is crystal clear because nothing comes from a vacuum. There is a history and principally a reality of today in which socialism is built. Mariategui recognizes the Ayllu as an economic system superior to the one brought by the European conquerors, which was a "slavist economy," inefficient and backward. But Mariategui never proposed the "reverting" to the Ayllu system, within the historical project of socialism. What is most important, Mariategui never said that the Incan empire was a "harmonious communist society" as some reactionaries claim.
The People's Committees, the New Power being built in Peru, is not based on Ayllus, or any other ancient communities, but on the worker-peasant alliance guided by the ideology of the proletariat.