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Che Guevara and the Fight for Socialism Today: Cuba Confronts the World Crisis of the '90s

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This pamphlet is very important. It explains the political reason why the Cuba revolution has continued to grow and survive, while the stalinist bureaucratic run governments of Eastern Europe and the USSR have collapsed, and why the remaining Stalinist governments in China, North Korea, and Vietnam are in Crisis.

Whatever assistance the Cubans received from the Stalinized workers states, there was always a revolutionary opposition to the Stalinist politics and the approaches to "building socialism" that came with that aid. After the attempt to use more of these methods in the 1970s, the ideas of Che Guevera about political and economic struggle were revived in Cuba, and the Cuban government launched a program of struggle against Stalinism that Fidel Castro denounced as "worse than capitalism."

This pamphlets explains the political approach of Che which is the lifeblood of the Cuban revolution.

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This book is propaganda pure and simple. I had to read this for a poli sci class last semester and it is horrible. It begins with the increaing interest in Marxism and socialism. And then goes on to profile che guvara and Castro and the implications for socialism after the 5 billion dollar subsidies dried up after the early 1990's.

Don't waste your time buying or reading this extremely short and biased work. Their is no information and only tiny philosophical reasons why communism didn't fail after the U.S.S.R fall. Very short and biased and contains nothing of substance. Also very expensive for what amounts to propaganda.

Mary-Alice does a wonderful job of describing Che's political ideas, and tying them in with today's political issues in the United States, Cuba, and all around the world. This pamphlet is a must for anyone interested in Che, Cuba, or worldwide trends in the capitalist system as a whole.