For a similar analysis I would recommend Ernesto Che Guevara’s “Message to the Tricontinental.” This was written in the fall of 1966 and published in Havana in the spring of 1967 after Che had left to participate in the Bolivian campaign.

It states, in part: “Twenty-one years have elapsed since the end of the last world conflagration and various publications in every language are celebrating the event, symbolized by the defeat of Japan. A climate of optimism is apparent in many sectors of the different camps into which the world is divided. Twenty-one years without a world war in these days of maximum confrontations of violent clashes and abrupt turns appear to be a very high number. All of us declare our readiness to fight for this peace. But without analyzing its practical results (poverty, degradation, constantly increasing exploitation of enormous sectors of humanity), it is appropriate to ask whether the peace is real.”

The complete message is available in Pombo: A Man of Che’s Guerrilla and in Che Guevara Speaks, both published by Pathfinder Press.

Edwin Fruit
Des Moines, Iowa  
 
 
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