The Communist Party and the problem of power
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n the previous writings for the Tenth Congress of the PC, there was a debate about power. Jacobo Arenas intervened. In his theses, he defended the guerrilla’s points of view and he made clear that the insurgency was not an instrument of pressure to negotiate with the existing political power but for the seizure of power.
The political guidelines of the Tenth Congress of the Communist Party made clear that “…guerrilla warfare is one of the most sublime methods of mass struggle…”.
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