The Marxism of Che Guevara

The Marxism of Che Guevara: Philosophy, Economics, and Revolutionary Warfare is a book by Michael Lowy. It is a short work addressing the political, ethical and economic components of Ernesto Guevara's thinking.

First published in French as La pensée de “Che” Guevara in 1970; it was translated by Brian Pearce and published by Monthly Review Press (New York, NY and London) in 1973 as a 127-page hardcover (ISBN 0-85345-274-1).

Response

Encyclopædia Britannica described it as "a short but lucid introduction to Guevara's ideas" .

Contents

• Introduction: Che's theoretical contribution

• Part I: Che's philosophy
• Che and Marxism
• The revolution is made by men
• The new man
• Humanist values

• Part II: Che's economic ideas
• Introduction
• Productive forces and production relations
• The law of value and socialist planning
• The budgetary system of finance
• Material and moral incentives
• Voluntary labor and communism

• Part III: Revolutionary warfare
• Introduction
• Sociology of the revolution
• Guerrilla warfare
• The general strike
• The world revolution

• Part IV: Guevarism today

• Appendix: Che's reading

• Bibliography

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