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person1953–1967

Che Guevara

Disciplines:
politics/revolutionary politics
military/guerrilla warfare
film theory/marxist theory

Summary

Argentine Marxist revolutionary who played a central role in the Cuban Revolution alongside Fidel Castro and became an international symbol of anti-imperialist revolution and guerrilla warfare.

Core Contribution

Developed the foco theory of guerrilla warfare — that a small committed vanguard could create the conditions for revolution without waiting for objective social conditions — and embodied the romantic revolutionary as a global political archetype.

Notable Works & Achievements

Guerrilla Warfare

The Motorcycle Diaries

Historical Influences

Karl Marx Fidel Castro Frantz Fanon

Intellectual Lineage

Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary TraditionLatin American Revolutionary Politics

Contemporaries & Peers

Fidel Castro Ho Chi Minh Frantz Fanon

Minds Influenced

Numerous Latin American guerrilla movements

Intellectual Posterity

Foco theoryChe image

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