Revolution in the Revolution

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Revolution in the Revolution is a brilliant, pragmatic assessment of the situation in Latin America in the 1960s. First published in 1967, it became a controversial handbook for guerrilla warfare and revolution, read alongside Che's own pamphlets, and remains fully as important as the writings of Guevara. Lucid and compelling, it spares no personage, no institution, and no concept, taking on not only Russian and Chinese strategies but Trotskyism as well. The year it was published, Debray was convicted of having been part of Guevara's guerrilla group and sentenced to 30 years in prison. He was released in 1970, following an international campaign, which included appeals by Jean-Paul Sartre, Andr Malraux, General Charles de Gaulle and Pope Paul VI.

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a primer for guerrilla insurrection * wired.com *
A writer of distinction -- Jeremy Harding * London Review of Books *
From beginning to end, Rgis Debray's demonstration is dazzling. * Lire *
Far from losing himself in the thicket of erudition, Debray knows how to to touch on the essential. * Le Monde *
An explosive, unfamiliar combination of an utterly intransigent revolutionary ethics and an extraordinarily detailed and concrete technics of insurrection. * New Left Review *

Author Bio

Rgis Debray teaches philosophy at the Universit de Lyon-III and is director of the European Institute of the History and Science of Religion. He is the author of many books, including Media Manifestos, Critique of Political Reason and God: An Itinerary.