The Politics of Che Guevara - Theory and Practice by Samuel Farber (US edition, paperback) - 9781608466016

This reexamination of Ernesto "Che" Guevara's thoughts on socialism, democracy, and revolution is a must-read for today's activists—or anyone longing to fight for a better world.Fifty years after his death, Guevara remains a symbol to legions of young rebels and revolutionaries. This unique book provides a way to critically engage with Guevara's economic views, his ideas about revolutionary agency, and his conduct as guerrilla commander and government administrator in Cuba.Samuel Farber was born and raised in Cuba. He has written extensively on Cuba and the Cuban Revolution and is author of Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959.This reexamination of Ernesto "Che" Guevara's thoughts on socialism, democracy, and revolution is a must-read for today's activists—or anyone longing to fight for a better world.Fifty years after his death, Guevara remains a symbol to legions of young rebels and revolutionaries. This unique book provides a way to critically engage with Guevara's economic views, his ideas about revolutionary agency, and his conduct as guerrilla commander and government administrator in Cuba.Samuel Farber was born and raised in Cuba. He has written extensively on Cuba and the Cuban Revolution and is author of Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959.Will clarify the widespread mystification and confusion about what Che Guevara did and stood for. Reexamines Che Guevera's thoughts on socialism, democracy, and revolution.Che Guevara was murdered in Bolivia in 1967. Therefore, the year 2017 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of that event.The book will help activists in their political practice and scholars in their study of Cuba, Latin America and revolutionary thought and practice.Explores the political implications of guerrilla warfare, especially in relation to the role of the working class and its struggles.Review copies will be sent and interviews will be lined up with , KPFK Pacifica Station, Los Angeles, and other Pacifica Stations, KBOO as well as to the editors of Jacobin and In These Times.We will take out program ads in the Latin American Studies Association annual meeting in New York in May of 2016. The American Sociological Association annual meeting in early August and the American Political Science Association early September. “In his previous books, the respected Marxist scholar Sam Farber has explored the paradoxes of the Cuban revolutionary experience with acute insight. Now, using sources unavailable to previous biographers, he scrupulously reconstructs the political thought of the twentieth century’s foremost revolutionary icon, illuminating the contradictions between Che’s radical egalitarianism and his austere elitism. Although he will always be revered for his heroic internationalism, Che&