guerilla warfare ? worth me buying ?

[learningaboutheleft123]

Im new to the left and im thinking of buying guerilla warfare, is it worth me buying. What other books would you recommend.

[scarletghoul]

Im assuming you mean the one by Che ?
I've not read it but would like to recommend a work of the same name written by a slightly more successful guerilla leader http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1937/guerrilla-warfare/

[Blackscare]

I would spend more of my energy learning about the foundations of Marxism/Leftism than reading texts about how to properly go about warfare, if I were you. At least in the beginning.

[gorillafuck]

If it's out of intellectual curiousity and interest then go for it, but don't expect to use any of that information in real life.

[Widerstand]

I would argue that if you have no ambitions of starting or joining a guerrilla group it's prolly a waste of money right now.

If you're new to the left, I suggest you get some theoretical basics down first. There are plenty of small, cheap books explaining the basics of Marxism, one I can recommend is Ernest Mandel's Introduction To Marxism (other titles of the same work: orig - Introduction au marxisme, 1975; translation - From class society to communism: an introduction to Marxism, 1977), as it also picks up additions made by Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin and Mao.

[bailey_187]

no its boring and not at all relevent

[Struggle]

Guerrilla Warfare, as written by Che Guevara, is largely less scientific than the strategic theories written by Mao Tse Tung, which unless you intend on taking part in guerrilla struggle, is much more worth reading.

Che Guevara absolutely had a lot to offer in terms of strategy in the field of the developing world, and Focoism to at least some extent can be effective. However, Protracted People's Warfare is much more dialectic and scientific as a strategic theory.

If you intend on taking part in an armed struggle, both Guerrilla warfare and On Guerrilla Warfare are recommended reads. However, if you have no intention as such, Guerrilla Warfare as written by Che Guevara offers little in relevance to building a revolution in a country such as Britain or the United States.

[ellipsis]

Read it, or you can read my critical review of it (http://therevolutionscript.blogspot.com/2010/06/critical-review-of-guevaras-guerilla.html), which would take less time.

[theAnarch]

I think in a modern context The Coming Insurrection, and the ABCs of Revolution by the Invisible committee would be more pertinent.

Though I dont think the second one is out in englich yet.