revolutionary action movement (ram) - Michael Schwartz Library

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Donald Hodges, in Philosophy of the Urban Guerrilla , deals with the
writings of Abraham Guillen, the major political and military theoretician
of urban guerrillas in Latin America . Guillen, in his wrrtings, raises
theoretical arguments against the use of rural guerrilla warfare in Latin
America . He particularly attacks the strategies of Che Guevara and Regis
Debray, emphasizing that over 50 percent of the
population in Latin America
now lives in urban areas .
Guillen using this data calls for urban guerrilla
warfare .
Guillen also states that the praxis for socialist revolution has
shifted to the Third World and argues that the principle antagonism in the
world is not between the imperialist powers but between the imperialist
powers and the underdeveloped world .
Guillen asserts that socialist revolution will not occur in the capitalist
center (Europe and the United States) until revolution is victorious
first in the periphery (underdeveloped world) . When focusing on revolution
for the Americas, Guillen says that workers in the U .S . have developed a
false 'bourgeois' class consciousness, due to the materials benefits, 'high
economic standard of
living', they received from the imperialist relationship
the United States has with the Third World .
Guillen's major point is that Latin America is a colony of the United
States . He believes that workers in the United States will be forced into
revolutionary class consciousness as a result of the drop in the standard
of living in the United States due to a revolution in Latin America .
Guillen believes that if Che Guevara had gone to Argentina and waged urban
guerrilla war, he would have received mass support and would have ignited a
continent-wide revolution . The call for a continent-wide Latin American