Guerrilla Warfare - Brossura

Ernesto Guevara

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ISBN 10: 0285636804 ISBN 13: 9780285636804

Casa editrice: Souvenir Press Ltd, 2003

Riassunto

Guerrilla Warfare is Che Guevara's own story of the Cuban revolution. It was written in 1960, just after the 1956-1959 revolution, and originally intended as a manual for other guerrilla movements of Latin America. It grew into Che's classic account of the motivations and justifications of revolution. Before Che became an icon of revolutionary martyrdom he was a soldier, a military strategist and inspirational leader. Che's dream was to unite the developing world through armed revolution and to end the poverty and injustice that had dominated it for centuries. Guerrilla Warfare is the work of a man before he was turned into a myth, while he was forming the beliefs that today form the basis for numerous political struggles around the world. The Cuban revolution against the Batista dictatorship was also a struggle against American imperialism in Latin America. For Che, American capitalism had merely replaced colonial exploitation and his prophetic insights into the globalisation that now dominates world politics are as pertinent today as when they were written. This is more than an instruction guide to founding a guerrilla movement, it is a work that sets out the faith necessary for political action, an evocation of Che's own idealism. "Che's insights are just as alive today as they were when he first wrote them down in 1960, and his work has been placed alongside that of Mao Tse-Tung and Vo Nguyen Giap. Armed struggle, based on the Cuban example of hit-and-run tactics by small and mobile rural partisan bands is, he argues, the proper path to revolution in Latin America."-Latin America in Books. "Among Cuban revolutionary leaders, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara was unique in discerning that the Cuban Revolution could be a powerful influence in promoting insurgency elsewhere in Latin American."-American Historical Review. This indispensable book includes three of Che Guevara's most influential essays describing his tactical philosophy of fighting a guerrilla war in Latin America. "Guerrilla Warfare, " written in 1960, outlines Guevara's doctrine for guerrilla fighters, especially against Caribbean-style dictatorships. In "Guerrilla Warfare: A Method" (1963) and "Message to the Tricontinental" (1967), Guevara modified some of his earlier tenets. These latter two works move away from his earlier dogmatism, suggesting that Marxist revolution was possible even in purportedly democratic regimes. All three essays reflect his deeply held belief that a small, rural-based guerrilla army could trigger a revolution. Introducer Marc Becker is a visiting scholar at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania and the author of Mariategui and Latin American Marxist Theory.

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Recensione:

CHE GUEVARA'S CLASSIC TEXT IS NOT JUST A BOOK OF TACTICS, IT'S A CLOSELY REASONED, FINELY DETAILED AND IMPASSIONED ANALYSIS OF THIRD WORLD EXPLOITATION AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE EXPLOITED. (. .)

"There are numerous books about Che Guevara but Guerrilla Warfare is not only Che's story of the Cuban revolution but an insight to his political philosophy... more than an insight into the founding of a guerrilla movement; it is a work that sets out the belief necessary for political action." (Buzz .)

"These writings, however, are also part of Guevara's broader reflections on society... Guevara rates as one of the most influential military theorists of the 20th century." (Military Illustrated .)

"Both a how-to manual for guerrillas and a manifesto for revolutionary idealists, this account of the Cuban Revolution of 1957-59 was Che's political testament." (The Observer .)

L'autore:

Che Guevara is the most famous revolutionary icon in the world. He dedicated his life to leading an armed revolt against the poverty and injustice rife in South and Latin America. He fought alongside Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution of 1956-59 and became the Rebel Army commander, in this position he started to form the revolutionary ideology and military strategies that are the basis for Guerrilla Warfare. Che left Cuba in 1965 to spread his revolutionary message, fighting in the Congo before returning to Latin America with the intention of sparking a hemisphere-wide guerrilla uprising. He was executed in Bolivia, in 1967.

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• Editore: Souvenir Press Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0285636804
• ISBN 13: 9780285636804
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 200