After leaving school, it is almost compulsory for petty-bourgeois graduates to go abroad for a year in petty-bourgeois circles to "find themselves". Work and Travel in Australia or Au-pair in the USA are no longer the favorite destination of European young adults. Rather, "exotic" countries in Latin America or Southeast Asia are now preferred. Because in the semi-colonies and semi-feudal countries of this world, you can really learn something for life, for example to value the "simplicity" (besides, one can experience much more for little money than in imperialist countries). If they also help in social projects, then there is also something well done for the reassurance of the bad conscience that may overcome some who have grown up in the imperialist nations. Of course, such a year abroad is also outstanding in the CV. Not to mention all the great pictures in front of a picturesque backdrop. Of course, this "simplicity" is actually the harsh reality of the most oppressed and exploited peoples in the world. And of course, profit is being squeezed out of it. In Peru, a trip to the Machu Picchu becomes an adventure trip when the tour groups are “allowed” to experience poverty in Inca villages on their way there. Locals will even sale a couple of their products and serve as cheap hotels, which will then give the tour operator the title "social project". Because according to the Hamburger Abendblatt, "both sides benefit from this". But at the end of the day there is nothing romantic about being watched by some backpackers while fearing for their very existence every day and not having enough money to satisfy the most basic needs. In truth, the local people are only kept in economic dependence on foreign visitors. Just as the oppressed nations are held dependent on the imperialists. And against that the people will rise.
But of course, in the imperialist countries, we can actually learn a great deal from the oppressed peoples of this world, especially from those who, like the Peruvian people, carry out the People's War. But certainly not in form of a petty-bourgeois adventure trip. We, as part of the world’s proletariat, can learn from the struggles of the masses led by the Communist Party of Peru. Nevertheless, it is, above all, our task, in the sense of proletarian internationalism, to support the struggles of the oppressed nations with all force.
