I’ve been listening to Guerrilla Warfare this week and it’s just had me thinking about Che more generally, particularly how he was essentially killed trying to replicate the Cuban pattern in Bolivia.
Was his strategy adventurist? Did it become adventurist by applying it in the wrong conditions? Were the Cuban revolutionaries just adventurists that got lucky - (Fidel wasn’t even communist at the time so it’s hard to say they were following some kind of Leninist line)? Do we just call armed insurrections adventurism if they fail, heroism if they win?
I wouldn’t consider myself an expert on Che or the movements he fought in, I know a decent amount about Cuba, but very little about his time in Africa or elsewhere. Looking to start a discussion and hopefully be educated by comrades who are more well-read on this topic.
It wasn’t adventurism in the formal term, Che by that point would never do something so frivolous after the experience of the Cuban Revolution. It was just not a great plan and didn’t have enough support (though it certainly had some) and seemed to favor doing more warfare over the obvious task of nation-building that he absolutely could have continued with back in Cuba, and I think that last part is why it gets called adventurist, because there is a superficial similarity in terms of the vibe.