PCP's comments on human rights

What the Communist Party of Peru thought about human rights

We reject and condemn human rights because they are bourgeois, reactionary, counterrevolutionary rights, and are today a weapon of revisionists and imperialists, principally Yankee imperialists.

The position of all Marxist-Leninist-Maoists on “human rights” is right here.

There is simply no way that you could embrace human rights and call yourself a “real Communist”. “Human rights” are there to cater to the interests of a few countries (the three western european big states) and the settler colonial entity united states.

There is simply no way that “intergovernmental organizations” who operate under the logic of legality (which human rights come from) like the icc or the icj could ever destroy the interests of said countries and entity. Namely, to exert the JDPON on germany, france and britain and to decolonize Turtle Island completely. But this is obvious, said organizations that are “for human rights” will never go against the interests of the members that are a part of those organizations, because those members are german, french, british, yankee, kanadian, dutch, etc.

Also, regarding legality, in a broader sense, it operates as a function against the proletariat, the peasantry and even some of the labor aristocracy (even if the latter are net benefactors of imperialism, are net exploiters and not proletarian at all, and their interests as a class are opposed to the proletariat). Legality reinforces bourgeois society as it is the tool of the bourgeoisie and the petit bourgeoisie (including the labor aristocracy) to keep the lower classes oppressed. If a wholesale worker is given a fine because of a traffic infraction, the consequences for a wholesale worker who lives in precarious conditions (even if said worker is a labor aristocrat) will never be the same for a bourgeois. Legality, because of its character as law under capitalist society, will always work for the bourgeois interest oppressing other classes.

The logic here is not only similar but even worse for the proletariat. A proletarian from Russia, India, Brazil or Nigeria will never be able to see “victories” in a “human rights court” for themself and their class. The interests of monopoly capital will never be compromised for Third World workers and they actually need to be moved forward if imperialism and capitalism are to be kept alive.

This is exactly the message that the laudable revolutionary comrades of the PCP were telling us when they were waging their struggle under the leadership of Chairman Gonzalo.