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Ernesto Che Guevara, *Marx and Engels: a biographical introduction*, published by Ocean Press, Melbourne. by Phil Duncan Ocean Press is a fascinating little publisher, specialising in publishing the work of Cuban revolutionaries in English. Some years back, while visiting Melbourne, I picked up a book of theirs on Haydee Santamaria, one of my personal revolutionary heroes, so it was gratifying to come across this little book by Che on Marx and Engels late last year. Che actually wrote this modest, but highly interesting, little work after his involvement in the revolutionary struggle in the Congo in 1965 and before his final misadventure in Bolivia. It was originally envisaged not as a stand-alone piece but as part of a much larger work on political economy. Pressing attachments elsewhere, most particularly his decision to go to Bolivia to help foster revolution there, meant his book was not completed, although fragments that were have been published. The book arose out of Che’s disquiet about the Soviet bloc and his concern that it was headed more towards capitalism than socialism. He grappled, both in his role as a leading figure in the shaping of the revolutionary Cuban economy and later in Africa and Bolivia, with the problems of the transition from capitalism to socialism, becoming more and more convinced that things in the Soviet Union had taken a wrong turn. . . . https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/che-on-marx-engels-and-the-nz-left/ _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com