Does remembering the 40th anniversary of the murder of Che Guevara fill you with hope for the future?

Question

After all, any one of us could, if we had the courage, take up the struggle on behalf of the working people of the world. It's not like they don't need a revolution today even more than 40 years ago.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071006/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/che_s40th

Answer 1

For most people, Che is just an image on a t-shirt and what he tried to do is lost though history

Answer 2

Che a thug, thug like Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, and his buddy Fidel will join him as worms food in the workers paradise. Che is a thug that killed peasants did not agree with the commie program, and Che death in boliva was morally wrong, but Che was a thug like the others listed above

Answer 3

I remember him. So does history. Now this is only a tiny piece, folks. Educate yourselves and read the whole article, and perhaps a bit more on both sides of this issue.

In North America, Western Europe and many regions outside Latin America, the image had been likened to a global brand, long since shedding its ideological or political connotations, and the obsession with Guevara has been dismissed by some as merely "adolescent revolutionary romanticism".[85] In the United States, a country often the focus of Guevara inspired protests in the hemisphere,[109] his image was removed from a CD carrying case after significant public opposition which compared Guevara to Osama bin Laden and Adolf Hitler. Retail group Target Corporation issued a public apology for producing the item.[110] American, Latin American and European writers, Jon Lee Anderson, Régis Debray, Jorge Castañeda and others contributed to demystify the image of Guevara via articles and biographies, which detailed his life and legacy in more unidealistic terms; and, in the case of Octavio Paz, was accompanied by a critical indictment of the Marxism espoused by many in the Latin American left.[111] Political writer Paul Berman went further, asserting that the "modern-day cult of Che" obscures the work of dissidents and what he believes is a "tremendous social struggle" currently taking place in Cuba.[112] Author Christopher Hitchens, who was a socialist and a supporter of the Cuban revolution in the 1960s but has since changed his views, summarised Guevara's legacy thus: "Che's iconic status was assured because he failed. His story was one of defeat and isolation, and that's why it is so seductive. Had he lived, the myth of Che would have long since died."[85]

Hope for the future? Yes, if we continue to fight socialism and keep the American, not the Cuban or Marxist Dream, alive.

Answer 4

The image of school-children starting their day with "We are pioneers for communism. We will be like Che" absolutely does not fill me with hope for the future.

Answer 5

What are you trying to say Fabio? Do you want a communist union? Do you remember the Soviet Union? Tomorrow, right after your gynecologist appointment, why don't you start your revolution. Make your first move your best. It will be the last.

Answer 6

Yes. What can be better than a dead communist ? Check out this quote from your "hero:

"Hatred is an element of struggle; relentless hatred of the enemy that impels us over and beyond the natural limitations of man and transforms us into effective, violent, selective, and cold killing machines. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy." --Che G.

Answer 7

Working people do not have time to attend a revolution, if you think his way was successful, all you have to do is look to Cuban to see how well that revolution went

Answer 8

yeah Im 14 soooooooooooooo

Answer 9

It just clarifies, for me, what our "protectors" in the CIA will do in the name of "freedom"!!

Viva Che!!!

Answer 10

You think a network of teenagers focused on asking questions like "How do I look thinner?" are going to care about something worthwhile? I admire your morals and couldn't agree with you more. But you need to target a slightly less ignorant audience.