Apuntes criticos a la economia (Ocean Sur) [Paperback]

Ernesto Che Guevara (Author)

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Series: Ocean Sur | Publication Date: August 1, 2006

First publication in any language of Che Guevara’s highly controversial and much speculated about critique of the Soviet economic system. As Minister for Industry and head of Cuba's National Bank in the early years of the revolution, Che resisted all attempts to impose rigid Soviet ideas about political economy in Cuba.

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Che Guevara served as Minister of Industry and head of the National Bank of Cuba following the 1959 revolution.

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• Paperback: 500 pages
• Publisher: Ocean Press (August 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1920888632
• ISBN-13: 978-1920888633
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,582,137 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Che's Critical Points about Economic Politics, November 17, 2007

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This review is from: Apuntes criticos a la economia (Ocean Sur) (Paperback)

I have now read, in Spanish, Guevara, E.C. Apuntes Criticos a La Economia Politica. Melbourne, Australia: Ocean Books, 2006. The publisher advises that they will release an English translation in 2008. Although written in 1965, the book has not seen print in any language until 2006.

The book prints some relevant writings and transcriptions of some of Guevara's relevant lectures from 1965 and earlier. The book includes an outline of a formal work of which only introductory material to five planned parts was completed before his death in 1967.

The completed material includes two chapters: 1) the necessity for the book, and 2) a double biography of Marx and Engels.

The main part of the book is a critique of a 1963 Spanish edition of a Stalinist "Manual of Economic Politics". Guevara critically comments in a paragraph on each of 225 points. The tenor of the criticisms is a call for integrity and deflation of hyperbole. Guevara frequently points to situations which are specific to the Soviet Union and could have no use in any other country.

A telling quote from one of his tape-recorded lectures follows in my translation from his pages 354 and 355: "These are biographies [of Marx and Lenin] which have penetrated a little into each man and into history. These biographies are very