Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beheadings & Poetry. If Castro was the spearhead of Cuba's revolution, Che was its philosopher. Born in Argentina, he grew up battling in the streets against Dictator Juan Peron, gave up a medical career to become a full-time revolutionary, and by the early 1950s was in Mexico City...
A Basic Flaw. Che's death illustrates how unsuccessful the attempt has been. In the eight years since Castro came to power, Cuba has spent $400 million on its "wars of liberation," trained 5,000 young Latin American guerrillas and launched more than 15 different at tempts at revolution...
The flaw in Che's philosophy of revolution is revealed in his book Guerrilla Warfare, which sets down a step-by-step plan for organizing peasants for a Cuban-style revolution. What Che ignored was the fact that Castro did not really create a peasant revolution in Cuba. Though...
In practice, Che himself compounded the fallacy of his theories by breaking even his most basic rules. In Bolivia, he not only underestimated the army's capability: he also misjudged the mood of the campesinos, who wanted nothing to do with his revolution. To recruit guerrillas, Che had to...
Attlee became Britain's Prime Minister in the startling upset elections of July 1945, when war-weary Britons tossed out Winston Churchill's Tories and gave Labor an overwhelming 146-seat majority in Commons. Frail and diffident, timid in crowds and a mediocre public speaker, he seemed an...