CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Guevara in the Congo . His plan was to use the communist zone on the western shores of Lake Tanganyika as a training ground for the Congolese and fighters from other revolutionary communist movements. The foco theory of revolution by way of guerrilla warfare , also known as focalism (Spanish: foquismo [foˈkizmo] ), was formulated by French intellectual and government official Régis Debray , whose main source of inspiration was Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara 's experiences surrounding his rebel army's victory in the 1959 Cuban Revolution . Its central principle is that vanguardism by cadres of small, fast-moving paramilitary groups can provide a focus (in Spanish, foco ) for popular discontent against a sitting regime, and thereby lead a general insurrection . Although th...