The real Che Guevara
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victorin1 — 6 years ago(August 06, 2019 04:50 AM)
The racism of Che Guevara
Quotes from the book “The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin America Journey”
“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.”
That's Che himself delighted in belittling blacks in his celebrated Motorcycle Diaries. Can't imagine how Robert Redford left that out of his charming movie.
In reference to the Bolivian peasants, Che wrote in his Diary in Bolivia on June 19, 1967
“the inhabitants one must hunt them to be able to speak with them because they are like little animals.”
Wonder if Evo Morales has read them? He's too busy ribbon-cutting Che monuments in Bolivian villages.
Che didn't think much of Mexicans. In 1956 while residing in Mexico, Che refer to the Mexican as:
"a band of illiterate Indians."
Miguel Sánchez, “el coreano”, Che’s comrade in Mexico responsible of the military instruction of Castro’s Granma expeditionary force.
During a 1959 press conference Luis Pons, a prominent Cuban black, asked Che Guevara, what the revolution planed on doing to help blacks. Che answered:
“We’re going to do for blacks exactly what blacks did for the revolution. By which I mean: nothing.”
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victorin1 — 6 years ago(September 02, 2019 07:21 AM)
Guevara’s elevation as symbol of goodness, due to the self-indulgence and frivolity of pampered Western pseudo revolutionaries, speaks clearly of their lack of critical objective analysis, forgetting that, as Anthony Daniels states, "The difference between ‘Che’ Guevara and Pol Pot was that Guevara never studied in Paris."
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victorin1 — 6 years ago(September 09, 2019 12:15 AM)
In 1956, when Che linked up with Fidel, Raul and their Cuban chums in Mexico city, one of them (now in exile) recalls Che railing against the Hungarian freedom-fighters as "Fascists!" and cheering their extermination by Soviet tanks.
In 1962 Che got a chance to do more than cheer from the sidelines. He had a hand in the following:
"Cuban militia units commanded by Russian officers employed flame-throwers to burn the palm-thatched cottages in the Escambray countryside. The peasant occupants were accused of feeding the counterrevolutionaries and bandits."
At one point in 1962, one of every 19 Cubans was a political prisoner. Fidel himself admits that they faced 179 bands of "counter-revolutionaries" and "bandits."
Humberto Fontova, “Che the ‘Guerrilla Fighter’ – Literally!” LewRockwell.com, August 15, 2005 (
http://www.lewrockwell.com/fontova/fontova52.html
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victorin1 — 6 years ago(September 14, 2019 11:21 PM)
Humberto Fontova,
Che Guevara: Assasin and Bumbler
, The Cuban American National Foundation, Feb. 23, 2004
Che Guevara was monumentally vain and epically stupid. He was shallow, boorish, cruel, and cowardly. He was full of himself, a consummate fraud and an intellectual vacuum. He was intoxicated with a few vapid slogans, spoke in cliches and was a glutton for publicity. But ah! he did come out nice in a couple of publicity photos, high cheekbones and all! And we wonder why he's a hit in Hollywood?
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Platonic_Caveman — 6 years ago(September 14, 2019 11:44 PM)
Are you one of those Mariel boat people or something? Or Ricky Ricardo's ghost? Why are you obsessed with Che Guevara?
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victorin1 — 6 years ago(September 26, 2019 06:45 PM)
The Real Che
One thing is certain: Guevara’s desire for the development of the New Man did not emerge from his empirical experience of actual men. In the Motorcycle Diaries, he meets many excellent and indeed magnificent men, rich and poor alike. Guevara’s desire for the development of the New Man, I believe, comes from his need to control the lives of others, his urge to power. With unique lack of self-knowledge, with an absolute absence of irony, he describes the character of Valdivia, the conquistador of Chile:
Valdivia’s actions symbolize man’s indefatigable thirst to take control of a place where he can exercise total control… . He belonged to that special class of men the species produces every so often, in whom a craving for limitless power is so extreme that any suffering to achieve it seems natural.
Could there be a better description of Guevara’s career itself?
In presenting Guevara as a romantic figure, generous and compassionate rather than ruthlessly priggish and self-centered, and by suggesting that he has anything to teach us other than negatively, the director is guilty of mendacity of a very high order. The film is an exercise in moral frivolity and exhibitionism, self-congratulation, of course, opportunism. It should sell as well as Guevara T-shirts.-Anthony Daniels, New Criterion, October, 2004.
Che’s New Man: Fanatics, liars, assassins and failed men, reaching the total realization of being like Che. -
twinA — 6 years ago(September 26, 2019 09:10 PM)
The man was a big hypocrite, really loving mega capitalistic Coca-Cola.
The problem with many revolutionaries is that, all too often, they want to change everything too fast and too quickly, not caring for the fact that everyone needs to be involved and not excluded instead of being made an enemy of the "New Order".
The best example of other people changing the course of an entire countries history and identity, look no further than the nearly 1,000 year reign of the Normans over Great Britain. In the past, it was directly. Today, it is indirectly and they own 80% of the island.
To get a better idea, look at some of the shows and movies about "Robin Hood".
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