Word: debrayism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wife found him weak after an eight-day hunger strike but still eager for news of Paris' art and cinema circles and of the moon landing. "If I were with you in Paris," Regis Debray said to Wife Elizabeth, "we would have spent all night seeing this marvel." In his second year of imprisonment for guerrilla activities in Bolivia, the French intellectual says that he is in virtual solitary confinement and went on strike "because there is no possibility of breathing as I am locked up inside all day long." Elizabeth Debray was denied an audience with Bolivia...
Feuer refers to Camus as the philosopher of "alienation" and a generational hero. Feuer does not cover the cult of Che Guevara and Regis DeBray, though one passage recognizes the role of Fidelism in radical student culture. The spirit of Che synthesized all the ingredients of the New Left: an anti-American intellectual who galvanized the masses in one country and suffered glorious martyrdom in another. This vision of the radical's mission to redirect history made a somewhat turgid book called Revolution in the Revolution? a best seller. Feuer lists C. Wright Mills and Paul Goodman...
...Bandwagon. Che cultists reverently equate him with such other leftist heroes as Mao Tse-tung, Ho Chi Minh, and French Marxist Régis Debray, a captured member of Che's Bolivian guerrilla band now serving a 30-year prison sentence. "I can't think of a revolutionary in the last century who had his romantic appeal," says Tariq Ali, 24, Pakistani-born leader of London's anti-Viet Nam demonstrators...
...same heroes; among them are such disparate Americans as Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Robert Kennedy, who is now much more popular with students abroad than at home. The far-out radicals idolize not the old leaders of Eastern Europe but such revolutionaries as Ho Chi Minh, Regis Debray and, above all, Che Guevara, around whom grows the martyr's myth...
Married. Regis Debray, 27, French-born Marxist, currently serving a 30-year sentence in a Bolivian prison (see THE WORLD...