From the Noble Savage to the Noble Revolutionary (Spanish: Del buen salvaje al buen revolucionario) is a book published in 1976 by Venezuelan writer Carlos Rangel that seeks to explore a new interpretation of the reality of Latin America far from and opposed to, what the author considers to be, myths spread and little questioned about the Latin American identity promoted mostly by the region's nationalists and socialists and that even has been exported as image to the rest of the world.

[2] For Rangel, the mistaken vision of Latin America as a victim of the developed world and the wealthy classes has forged a stock character, the "noble revolutionary", who promotes populism, protectionism, caudillismo and authoritarianism as a solution for the region "in revenge" for the abused received by Westerners and whose outbursts must be excused in the name of his "noble cause".

[2] For the author, the revolution, populism and idolatry of the state of the Latin American "noble revolutionary" are nothing more than the continuation of the ills that already existed in pre-Columbian societies, the colony and the nineteenth-century republics; as such, said path would not correct but rather aggravate that heritage.

[2] Carlos Rangel argues in favor of Western values hated by the "noble revolutionary" which, according to the book, are foolishly blamed for the ills of the Hispano-American nations.

For the author, the solution to Latin America's stagnation - which Rangel prefers to call Spanish America - is the approachment to the West, of which it is part, through liberalism and its values favorable to individual sovereignty, equality before the law, private property, and freedom without conditions, and that this path would be the one that leads to prosperity as Western society demonstrates.