Module 5: The Struggle Against Colonialism
Required Reading
Régis Debray, Revolution in the Revolution? (1967): pp. 11-12, 15-16, 67-91, 106-126
Recommended Reading
Che Guevara, “Message to the Tricontinental” (1967)
José Martí, “Nuestra América” (1891; English Spanish)
Further Reading
On the Cuban Revolution
Che Guevara, Guerrilla Warfare (1961)
Che Guevara, Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War (multiple editions in both English and Spanish that contain articles written by Che over the course of the war)
On Marxism in Latin America
Roberto Fernández-Retamar, “Caliban” (1971; English Spanish)
Julio Antonio Mella, Textos escogidos (selected writings from 1922-28)
José Carlos Mariátegui, Seven Interpretative Essays on Peruvian Reality (1928; English Spanish)
On capitalism and colonialism
Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (1950)
Karl Marx, Capital, vol. I, chapters 25-33