The Prolonged People's War
The strategy of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso to seize power is the Prolonged People's War, which rests on one essential assumption: violence is the universal law without exception. It is the law that makes it possible to resolve fundamental contradictions through People's War and one's own army. "It is a substantive question of Marxism, because without revolutionary violence it is not possible to replace one class with another, nor to topple an old order to create a new one." (Guzmán, Abimael; Presidente Gonzalo rompe su silencio; El Diario; No. 496, July 31, 1988, p. 15). (Introduction excerpt).