Che Guevara : His Revolutionary Legacy

Contents: Introduction. One Night, somewhere in Bolivia. 1. A Marxist humanism. 2. Socialist revolution or caricature of revolution. 3. In search of a new model of socialism. 4. The Guevarist heritage in Latin America. 5. From internationalism to alterglobalism, from the tricontinental to the Intercontinental. Appendix. Chronology of important dates. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

""Deep inside that T-Shirt where we have tried to trap him", notes the celebrated Chilean novelist Ariel Dorfman, "the eyes of Che Guevara are still burning with impatience". Olivier Besancenot and Michael Lowy deftly capture this burning impatience, revealing Guevara as a powerful political and ethical thinker still capable of speaking directly to the Challenges of our time.

In this masterful new study, Besancenot and Lowy explore and situate Guevara\'s ethical, revolutionary, and humanist legacy. They explicate Guevara\'s emphasis on the importance of the individual coming to understand and accept socialism at a personal level. For Guevara, Besancenot and Lowy Show, the revolutionary project demands more than a transformation of the mode of production; it demands a profound transformation of the individual, the birth of what Guevara termed the \'new man\'. Besancenot and Lowy also explore Guevara\'s pragmatic approach to the question of state power and unique theoretical contributions to the question of the transition to socialism."