Year: 1968
Author: Leo Huberman; Paul M. Sweezy (ed.)
Genre: Marxism and guerrilla warfare
Publisher: Monthly Review Press, London, New York
English language
Format: PDF
Interactive table of contents: No
Number of Pages: 138
Régis Debray (born September 2, 1940) is a French philosopher, journalist, former government official and academic. He is known for his theorization of mediology — a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in human society — and for fighting with Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara (in Bolivia in 1967) and advancing Salvador Allende's Marxist government (in Chile in the early 1970s).
In the late 1960s he was a professor of philosophy at the University of Havana in Cuba, and became an associate of Che Guevara in Bolivia. He wrote the book "Revolution in the Revolution?", which analysed the tactical and strategic doctrines then prevailing among militant socialist movements in Latin America, and acted as a handbook for guerrilla warfare that supplemented Guevara's own manual on the subject. It was published by Maspero in Paris in 1967 and in the same year in New York (Monthly Review Press and Grove Press), Montevideo (Sandino), Milan (Feltrinelli) and Munich (Trikont). Guevara was captured in Bolivia early in October, 1967; on April 20, 1967, Debray had been arrested in the small town of Muyupampa, also in Bolivia. Convicted of having been part of Guevara's guerrilla group Debray on November 17 was sentenced to 30 years in prison. He was released in 1970 after an international campaign for his release which included Jean-Paul Sartre, André Malraux, General Charles de Gaulle and Pope Paul VI. He sought refuge in Chile, where he wrote The Chilean Revolution (1972) after interviews with Salvador Allende. Debray returned to France in 1973 following the coup by Augusto Pinochet in Chile.
DEBRAY: THE STRENGTH AND THE WEAKNESS
by Leo Huberman and Paul M. Sweezy
1
CLASS, POLITICS, AND DEBRAY
by Andre Gunder Frank and S.A. Shah
12
THE ERRORS OF THE FOCO THEORY
by Clea Silva
18
QUESTIONS ON THE DEBRAY THESIS
by WiIIiam J. Pomeroy
36
DEBRAY AND THE CUBAN EXPERIENCE
by Sim6n Torres and Julio Aronde
44
THE MARXISM OF REGIS DEBRAY
by Robin Blackbum and Perry Anderson
63
RADICAL BUT WRONG
by Eqbal Ahmad
70
DEBRAY: BLACK POWER AND STUDENT POWER
by WilIiam A. WiIIiams
84
REGIS DEBRAY: HISTORICAL TRUTHS AND HISTORICAL ABERRATIONS
by Donald McKelvey 88
AN ANTI-COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
by Juan Bosch
96
DEBRAY: REVOLUTIONARY OR ELITIST?
by James Petras .
106
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF INSURRECTION
by Gordon Lewis
115
REVOLUTIONARY THEORY: CHE GUEVARA AND REGIS DEBRAY
by Peter Worsley
119
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