Word: debrayism
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...have to develop new forms and means to achieve it. It is not like the black struggle, nor like the European immigrants' nor even like those of Latin America, though it has gained inspiration from all of them. In short, it is adhering to the principle verbalized by Regis Debray in Strategy for Revolution: Essays on Latin America. After discussing some aspects of the Cuban Revolution. Debray states that he "believes that the admirable influence of the revolution has been a success and that it can be summed up in the following way: each must choose his own road according...
Lately, Cuba's bearded leader seems to be delivering nothing but stern exhortations. Two weeks ago, he wrote to Régis Debray, the French intellectual who was captured shortly before Bolivian soldiers killed Che Guevara in 1967 and was recently released from prison. "We are working hard and facing great difficulties," Castro confessed. "The march is truly long, Debray, because it is when power has been taken that we revolutionaries understand that we are barely starting...
...recent weeks, terrorists, revolutionaries and other troublemakers on the lam have gravitated to Socialist President Salvador Allende's capital from Bolivia, Brazil and Uruguay. Currently, the chief revolutionary in residence is Jules Regis Debray, 30, the French Marxist (some say Maoist) and Castro confidant who was captured in Bolivia shortly before Che Guevara was killed there in 1967. When he was released a month ago by the leftist military regime that recently seized power in La Paz, Debray had served nearly four years of a 30-year sentence for aiding Che's abortive attempt to stir...
...letter. "Under these circumstances," says Bonpane, "you either go with arms or you stay out." (CRV, Pannel Transcript, p. 15) The primary use of the guerrillas' weapons at this stage is to enable them to enter a village and explain their program to the peasants, asking them to join. Debray may have overstressed the military role of the guerrilla, and perhaps FAR does too. But he was right in saying that in order to do any kind of authentic mass organizing in most of Latin America, one needs the protection of arms...
...political structures began crumbling, Lenin's tactics were successfully grafted onto the guerrilla movements that arose in such places as China, Cuba and Viet Nam. But the theorists of these movements, including Che, his follower Régis Debray and Frantz Fanon (The Wretched of the Earth), generally overlooked the urban guerrilla and concentrated on the peasant...