This concept is not just applicable to guerrilla warfare. The larger, pedagogical point is that people can learn to overcome their doubts and scepticism about struggling and its utility for change through, and only through, struggle itself. If people do not engage in struggle, they will never know (subjectively) where it can take them. As Fidel Castrol said in defence of Che's ideas against those who insisted on waiting for conditions to ripen, 'not fighting is the surest way to never attain freedom'