to back up the above chomsky believes that people are responsible for their own actions and is not a marxist and so would not have backed the kr who do not appear to have been marxist blum is not at all supportive of the kr in killing hope or rogue state the two books of his that i have actually read i have a feeling that people let their anti socialist and anti communist feelings get in the way of the facts why are we even talking about such things chomsky and herman farc sendero luminosa on the edit page of william blum a note on sendero luminosa and the farc under a brutal regime the opposition to such a regime will sometimes be brutal this is not to say that people are not responsible for their actions it is only to contextualise events