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THE POLITICS OF CHE GUEVARA

Samuel Farber

Theory and Practice

Engaging such critical issues as Guevara's conduct as guerrilla commander and government administrator in Cuba, his political perspectives on revolutionary agency and his attempts to implement them in Cuba, Samuel Farber specifically reexamines Guevara's views on socialism, democracy, and revolution and asks what lessons can be learned by today's activists and social movements.

Samuel Farber was born and raised in Cuba and is a long time socialist who has written extensively on Cuba and the Cuban Revolution. He is the author of Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959, A Critical Assessment published by Haymarket Books in 2011.

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Book Published 2016-04-01 by Haymarket Books

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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's ideas diverged sharply from classical Marxist conceptions of self-emancipation and workers' democracy. Therein, as Farber shows so brilliantly, is the real tragedy of Third World revolution. -- Mike Davis, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Riverside,