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Theory of the Partisan: Intermediate Commentary on the Concept of the Political (1963)

INTRODUCTION

View of the Initial Situation 1808-13

The starting point of our considerations concerning the problem of the partisan is the guerrilla war that the Spanish people waged against the army of a foreign conqueror between 1808 and 1813. In this war, a pre-bourgeois, pre-industrial, pre-conventional people for the first time confronted a modern, well-organized, regular army that had evolved from the experiences of the French Revolution. This opened new horizons to the art of war, paving the way for a new understanding of the strategy and ultimately a new theory of war and politics.

The partisan fights as an...