Che Guevara and guerrilla warfare p. 41 on outline
Political strategy: “The first duty of the revolutionary is to make revolution.”
Che’s seven rules of guerrilla warfare: terrain, peasants, sanctuaries, hit/run, urban support, international support, destroy morale of enemy.
Guerrilla tactics (myth of the heroic guerrilla): “The guerrillero must ‘feel’ that the people will triumph.”
Success in Cuba contradicts lessons Che taught:
- Batista’s was a weak regime
- Urban insurrectionaries struck most powerful blows
- Conditions in L.A. would never be the same again