"The National Question is Not a Problem of Races. It's a Problem of Classes.""The oppression of the peasantry, mainly of the poor, is at the root of vindication of the Quechua, Aymara, and other cultures, and can only be solved by overthrowing the old order with the People's War."
"Based on the semi feudal oppression and exploitation prevailing in the Peruvian countryside, imperialism and reaction try to divert and distort the role of the peasants in the development of the Peruvian nation. They smudge the legitimate vindications of the Quechua and Aymara cultures to keep them subservient to the prevailing social and political order. These indigenous languages are spoken today in the Department of Puno, Peru, in the southern part of the country as well as in Bolivia. The old order neither wants nor can it solve, the problem of incorporating and developing the Quechua and Aymara cultures into the construction of the Peruvian nation."
The revisionists themselves only offer hypocritical and demagogical poses in dealing with the problem of race, which is linked to the Quechua, Aymara and other cultures. Despite this, they cannot hide the fact that the problem of race is above all, a problem of class struggle. In Perú, it is part of the unavoidable struggle of the peasantry, mainly the Andean peasants against the semi feudal order that is oppressing them. Therefore, the only way to solve this problem today is in the course of the People's War. Thus, only with the New Power, will the Quechua and Aymara vindication be fully attained.
The bourgeois dictatorship character of the reactionary State is intrinsically linked to the oppression of national minorities, the negation of their conditions and their ability to contribute to the building of a nation without feudal and semifeudal oppression lag, or the shame of racial and linguistic discrimination.
Among the national minorities, the Quechua and Aymara cultures are the largest and most immerse in the historical development of Peruvian society. This is due to both their racial and social characteristics. These originated from a truncated historic process, which has been traced from the period of the Spanish conquest until the period of the development of a form of capitalism tied to imperialist plans and objectives in the beginning of the Century.
IMPERIALISTS AND REACTIONARIES PROMOTE RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION TO PERPETUATE THEIR RULE It is common for the representatives of the Peruvian exploiting classes, whether literary figures, priests, military and politicians to consider that Quechua and Aymara are inferior subcultures.
It is also part of the speech and practice of these worshippers of decadence to link their typical capitalist forms and customs to the necessary deprivation of the oppressed minorities' liberties, rights, or even physical and moral integrity. Furthermore, the allegations that they cook up, such as they are "terrorists," is also at the level of demeaning expressions such as "the cholos screw up the race," and that "the Indians are very supersticious and weak."
Labels such as "Indian,""indio," "cholo," and "native," to refer to the peasantry, toilers, and working class, are demeaning and racist, aimed at distorting the fact that the origin of wealth in Peru was the ruthless exploitation and oppression of the immense majority of the Peruvian nation in development.
In the countryside, gamonalism and its lackeys use the most backward ideologies of racial and cultural discrimination to support the putrefact order of semifeudalism, and foreign imperialist domination.
THE RULE AND CRISIS OF BUREAUCRATIC CAPITALISM IS EXPRESSED IN THE CULTURE Through the media and the law, the exploiting classes impose stereotypes as "supreme values," based on racist molds, in order to encourage the worship of whatever is "gringo," "white," or foreign, as if the children and youth, mainly in the oppressed nations would have no further aspirations than to imitate them. What is their purpose? This is done in order to deny the fact that the solution of the problems facing the nation requires the defeat and destruction of the prevailing exploitation and oppression.
FATE OF QUECHUA AND AYMARA No one pretends to return Quechua and Aymara as the ruling languages of Perú. The economic and social conditions making that possible were destroyed a long time ago or have evolved from the very moment of the Spanish conquest and the later development of bureaucratic capitalism.
The core of the matter is that the old Power is based on keeping both Quechua and Aymara as oppressed cultures to be exploited for the survival and evolution of feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism. Only the People's War will solve the need of incorporating these rich cultures in favor of the Peruvian nation, emancipated from the imperialist yoke and semi feudal rule.
The New Power of the People's Republic of Perú, based on this reality, is fully aware of the Quechua, Aymara and other cultures as they are, and will promote their development on the base of destroying, crushing and sweeping away the material relations (imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucratic capitalism, and their oppressive apparatuses, the reactionary State) that allow their current marginal role, and discrimination.
THE CHILDREN: THE MAIN CONCERN
Under the imperialist rule of the country, and the bourgeois-landlord exploitation and oppression, from the Spanish colonial time to the present, Quechua and Aymara children have been forced to receive a Spanish education full of fairy tales, such as the Little Red Riding Hood (caperucita roja) and Snow White (blanca nieves), even when they neither understood nor spoke Spanish.
The aim of the reactionary State and its educational policies is to alienate the peasant children, and to force them back intellectually and morally, to indoctrinate them, weaken their self-steem and their ability to think by themselves, and to finally wash its hands of all responsibility on their later cultural development.
From the point of view of the power of the State and in order to perpetuate poverty and oppression, the exploiters purposely "misinterpret" the peasant and native reality, to fit their class interests and impose such devised "reality" on the education of children.
Marxism has already clearly established the following:The problem of race is essentially a class problem of class struggle. The same applies to the situation of Quechua, Aymara and other cultures.
"TO CASTELLANICIZE OR HISPANICIZE". AN EMPTY PHRASE DIVORCED FROM REALITY AND SOCIAL EMANCIPATION
After the independence from Spain in 1821, cultural oppression was renewed but specifically aimed at "Castellanicizing or "Hispanicizing" the Andean people in the social and economic fields. This helped the indigenous community to be divorced from its culture by the large plantations, which later became known as the Agrarian Society of Social Interest (SAIS), Agrarian Cooperatives of Social Promotion (CAPS), and other labels used by modern latifundia as part of the development of bureaucratic capitalism.
But after the triumph of the People's War, there will no longer be any room for social-language oppression to prosper, much to justify expressions such as "dialect", "substandard", "unofficial" or "lower prestige" for things that are ours, such as the Aymara and Quechua cultures.