Che's Theory of Revolution
Within months of the overthrow of Batista's dictatoship, Che Guevera writes a cogent defense of what became known as "foquismo."
Che writes:
"We consider that the Cuban Revolution contributed three fundamental lessons to the conduct of revolutionary movements in America. They are:
- Popular forces can win a war against the army.
- It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them.
- In underdeveloped America the countryside is the basic area for armed fighting.
Of these three propositions the first two contradict the defeatist attitude of revolutionaries or pseudo-revolutionaries who remain inactive and take refuge in the pretext that against a professional army nothing can be done, who sit down to wait until in some mechanical way all necessary objective and subjective conditions are given without working to accelerate them."