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The '''Shining Path''' ({{lang-es|Sendero Luminoso}}), officially the '''Communist Party of Peru''' ({{lang|es|Partido Comunista del Perú}}, [[abbr.]] PCP), is a far-left political party and terrorist[[guerrilla group]] in [[Peru]], following [[Marxism–Leninism–Maoism]] and [[Gonzalo Thought]]. Academics often refer to the group as the '''Communist Party of Peru – Shining Path''' ({{lang|es|Partido Comunista del Perú – Sendero Luminoso}}, abbr. PCP-SL) to distinguish it from other communist parties in Peru.

When it first launched its "[[people's war]]" in 1980, the Shining Path's goal was to overthrow the government through guerrilla warfare and replace it with a [[New Democracy]]. The Shining Path believed that by establishing a [[dictatorship of the proletariat]], inducing a [[cultural revolution]], and eventually sparking a [[world revolution]], they could arrive at [[Communist society|full communism]]. Their representatives stated that the then-existing [[Socialist state|socialist countries]] were [[Marxist revisionism|revisionist]], and the Shining Path was the [[Vanguardism|vanguard]] of the world communist movement. The Shining Path's ideology and tactics have influenced other Maoist [[Insurgency|insurgent]] groups such as the [[Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)]] and other [[Revolutionary Internationalist Movement]]-affiliated organizations.<ref>Maske, Mahesh. "Maovichar", in ''Studies in Nepali History and Society'', Vol. 7, No. 2 (December 2002), p. 275.</ref>