Revolution: A Practical Guide

This semester I am finally teaching a course I have long envisaged: a “practical guide” to Revolution. I can’t say that I am not a little anxious. I have already had departmental administrators worriedly suggesting I eliminate that phrase from the information I put about the course. And it’s the first time I’ve felt the need both on my syllabus and in class to state explicitly (for the sake of the lawyers, if no one else) that I am not actively condoning armed insurrection.

Anyhow, this post will be a repository of things I write in connection with the class:

• Russell Brand, Revolution
• David Graeber, “A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse”
• Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party
• Viva Zapata!
• Mariano Azuela, The Underdogs
• Nellie Campobello, Cartucho
• Che Guevara, Guerrilla Warfare
• Che: Part One
• Che Guevara, The Bolivian Diary
• Srdja Popovic, Blueprint for Revolution
• Noam Chomsky, Occupy
• Omar Cabezas, Fire from the Mountain
• Gioconda Belli, The Country Under My Skin
• Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Declaration
• The Invisible Committee, The Coming Insurrection