Revolution in the Revolution?

Revolution in the Revolution? is a brilliant, pragmatic assessment of the situation in Latin America in the 1960s. First published in 1967, it became a controversial handbook for guerrilla warfare and revolution, read alongside Che’s own pamphlets, with which it can compete in terms of historical importance and insight to this day. Lucid and compelling, it spares no personage, no institution, and no concept, taking on not only Russian and Chinese strategies but Trotskyism as well.

The year it was published, Debray was convicted of guerrilla activities in Bolivia and sentenced to thirty years in prison. He was released in 1970, following an international campaign, which included appeals by Jean-Paul Sartre, André Malraux, Charles de Gaulle and Pope Paul VI.

“An explosive, unfamiliar combination of an utterly intransigent revolutionary ethics and an extraordinarily detailed and concrete technics of insurrection.”
—New Left Review

“A writer of distinction.”
—Jeremy Harding, London Review of Books

“A primer for guerilla insurrection.”
—WiredRégis Debray teaches philosophy at the Université de Lyon–III and is Director of the European Institute of the History and Science of Religion. He is the author of many books, including Media Manifestos; Critique of Political Reason; and God: An Itinerary.