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Che Lives! The legacy of Che Guevara in world politics
Che Lives! The Legacy of the Che Guevara in World Politics, pp.23-39
Routledge
2026
Abstract
This article introduces the discipline of International Relations (IR) to the ideas of Che Guevara and their legacy in world politics. As one of the most famous revolutionaries of all time, Che’s legacy is complex, multifaceted, and deeply political. His thought carries across many concerns central to IR theory, especially decolonialism and anti-imperialism, offering a unique radical Marxist-humanism focused on revolutionary praxis. This paper explores Che’s writing and speeches, arguing that the most important aspects of Che’s legacy do not reside in his contemporary romanticization but in Che’s emphasis on class analysis as a means to interrogate neo-imperialism in world order and thereby expose the possibilities for a genuinely internationalist (or cosmopolitan) politics of emancipation leading to a decolonized, self-determining world.
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- Title
- Che Lives! The legacy of Che Guevara in world politics
- Authors
- Shannon Brincat - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and SocietyJuan Z. N. Cáceres
- Contributors
- Shannon Brincat (Editor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Society
- Publication details
- Che Lives! The Legacy of the Che Guevara in World Politics, pp.23-39
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2026
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003471554-2; 10.4324/9781003471554
- ISBN
- 9781003471554
- Copyright note
- This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991136702802621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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