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Che Guevara

His Revolutionary Legacy
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"Deep inside that T-shirt where we have tried to trap him," notes the celebrated Chilean novelist Ariel Dorfman, "the eyes of Che Guevara are still burning with impatience." Olivier Besancenot and Michael Loewy deftly capture this burning impatience, revealing Guevara as a powerful political and ethical thinker still capable of speaking directly to the challenges of our time. In this masterful new study, Besancenot and Loewy explore and situate Guevara's ethical, revolutionary, and humanist legacy. They explicate Guevara's emphasis on the import of the individual coming to understand and accept socialism at a personal level. For Guevara, Besancenot and Loewy show, the revolutionary project demands more than a transformation of the mode of production; it demands a profound transformation of the individual, the birth of what Guevara termed the "new man." Besancenot and Loewy also explore Guevara's pragmatic approach to the question of state power and unique theoretical contributions to the question of the transition to socialism. In Guevara, Besancenot and Loewy find a life that was lived as an example of revolutionary potential. Guevara's ethical and political sensibilities, unwavering anti-imperialism, and firm commitment to revolutionary social transformation still ignite hope in all who struggle for a better world.
Olivier Besancenot lives in France, where he works as a postal carrier. He received 1,498,581 votes in the first round of the French presidential elections in 2007. Michael Loewy is Research Director in Sociology at the National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris. James Membrez is an independent French to English translator of scholarly works in the social sciences and humanities. He lives in Vermont.
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