redstate.com By streiff
Most observers looking at the mob action directed against federal officers engaged in immigration enforcement in Minneapolis, in particular, are, in my opinion, losing the plot. What we are seeing in the coordinated attacks on federal law enforcement officers is not a popular resistance to removing welfare-guzzling layabouts from our country. It is the visible part of Mao Zedong’s “People War” or “revolutionary warfare triad.”
The 50s and 60s produced a remarkable stream of politico-military thought built upon at least the figment of Marxist class struggle. Mao Zedong exported “People’s War” to Asia and Africa. Che Guevara’s “foquismo” had a brief moment in the sun but was less successful. While Mao’s “People’s War” was able to manage the transition from popular resistance to guerrillas to regular armies in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and other places. I would even argue that one of the best case studies for Mao’s doctrine is the Irish War of Independence. So while Mao gets a lot of credit, the principles significantly predated his tossing the Kuomintang out of China. Algeria, Iraq, and Afghanistan also provide useful case studies. Guevara’s idea was that of a small, dedicated band of revolutionaries, as those led by Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra could set off a popular revolution. Guevara’s method worked in Cuba and, to a certain extent, in Nicaragua, but fell flat on its face when used by the Provisional IRA, the German Rote Armee Fraktion, the Italian Brigate Rosse, and our own Weather Underground. (As an aside, my personal nexus with the Brigate Rosse is having a young carabinieri point a submachinegun at me during a traffic checkpoint in northern Italy because he thought I was one.)
Let’s look at the steps in Mao’s revolutionary warfare doctrine and see what we can see…
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