Che Guevara, hero of the left[views:1237][posts:4]_________________________________________ [Jun 13,2008 8:03am - Conservationist ""] [img] "The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have seen their territory invaded by a new kind of slave: the Portuguese." "The black is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations." "The episode upset us a little because the poor man, apart from being homosexual and a first-rate bore, had been very nice to us, giving us 10 soles each, bringing our total to 479 for me and 163 1/2 to Alberto." "The first person we hit on was the mayor, someone called Cohen; we had heard a lot about him, that he was Jewish as far as money was concerned but a good sort." From The Motorcycle Diaries, by Che Guevara as cited by Many of the early leaders of the Cuban Revolution favored a democratic or democratic-socialist direction for the new Cuba. But Che was a mainstay of the hardline pro-Soviet faction, and his faction won. Che presided over the Cuban Revolution's first firing squads. He founded Cuba's "labor camp" system—the system that was eventually employed to incarcerate gays, dissidents, and AIDS victims. To get himself killed, and to get a lot of other people killed, was central to Che's imagination. In the famous essay in which he issued his ringing call for "two, three, many Vietnams," he also spoke about martyrdom and managed to compose a number of chilling phrases: "Hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine. This is what our soldiers must become …" From [URL=http://www.slate.com/id/2107100/]The Cult of Che as cited on CORRUPT |
| __________________________________ [Jun 13,2008 8:55am - brian_dc ""] Read a biography on the guy. Anyone who is a "lefty" and is all about this guy is just psyched to wear a t-shirt that makes them look counter-culture. |
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| _________________________________________ [Jun 13,2008 10:39am - brad weymouth ""] what is this 1995? |
| __________________________________________ [Jun 13,2008 10:58am - Conservationist ""] brian_dc said:Read a biography on the guy. Anyone who is a "lefty" and is all about this guy is just psyched to wear a t-shirt that makes them look counter-culture. This was news to me. I always figured him more for a pop culture icon (rebel) than serious political figure, but I like his Stalinist trip (hey, if you're gonna be a fuckin' commie, at least be a Platonist commie; it's like being Bill Cosby). Didn't know he was half Castillian-Basque and half-Irish. Explains his identification with the mestizo. |