Guiding thought
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Guiding thought is a theoretical concept in Marxism–Leninism–Maoism which was developed by Chairman Gonzalo. Guiding thought holds that with every country, the great leadership of the communist party develops a unique "thought" which applies Maoism to the country's conditions. In the context of the Russian Empire, this was Bolshevism, in China, Mao Zedong Thought, and in Peru, Gonzalo Thought.[1]
References
- ↑ Concerning Gonzalo Thought (1988).
"Moreover, and this is the basis upon which all leadership is formed, revolutions give rise to a thought that guides them, which is the result of the application of the universal truth of the ideology of the international proletariat to the concrete conditions of each revolution; a guiding thought indispensable to reach victory and to seize power and, moreover, to continue the revolution and to maintain the course always towards the only, great goal: communism; a guiding thought that, arriving at a qualitative leap of decisive importance for the revolutionary process which it leads, identifies itself with the name of the one who shaped it theoretically and practically. In our situation, this phenomenon specified itself first as guiding thought, then as Chairman Gonzalo’s guiding thought, and later, as Gonzalo Thought; because it is the Chairman who, creatively applying Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to the concrete conditions of Peruvian reality, has generated it; thus endowing the Party and the revolution with an indispensable weapon which is guarantee of victory."