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Revolution in the revolution? Armed struggle and political struggle in Latin America
Revolution in the revolution Armed struggle and political struggle in Latin America Author:Debray, Regis Regis Debray is now serving a thirty-year sentence in Bolivia for his alleged activities with "Che" Guevara's guerrillas. His real crime may well have been that he wrote this book. This work by a young French professor and philosopher has become a best-seller not only in South America but throughout the Third World. It has earned its author the ... more »hatred of the Latina American dictators and the CIA alike, while nonetheless endearing him neither to the Russians nor to the Chinese. It is a brilliant, pragmatic assessment of the present situation in Latin America, a handbook for guerilla warfare and revolution, fully as important as the writings of Mao Tse Tung and "Che" Guevara. It spares no personage, no instituion, and no concept, attacking not only Russian and Chinese strategies but Trotskyism as well, which still has some following in South America. As lucid and compelling as Sartre's writings on Algeria, it is also as polemical and uncompromising as Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth.« less