Che Guevara Marxist Murderer (Part ONE of FIVE)
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Guevara’s
Lamentable
Legacy
By John Suarez
___December 11th, 2008
Links are in GREEN
_Part ONE of FIVE
“We must say here what is a known truth,
we are executing and we will continue
to execute as long as is necessary.
Our struggle is a struggle to the death.”
Ernesto “Che” Guevara de la Serna
UN General Assembly, 1964
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Film makers have been erecting
a romantic image of Che Guevara
from the days of his youth,
as in Walter Salles‘s film
or his final days in Bolivia
in Steven Soderbergh‘s “
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It is important to highlight
Guevara‘s actual message,
actions,
and legacy.
Both films are a revisionist white wash
that ignore both the atrocities committed,
his hate filled writings,
and their aftermath not
only in Cuba but in the Americas.
The image of Che Guevara
hanging in the College dorms
of student radicals in 2009 may
be cliche but his message is not.
In his
Guevara argued that hatred was
something to be harnessed and used:
“Not only as an element
to struggle against injustice,”
but to be used to
perpetrate new injustices.
Guevara describes the
utilization of hatred or as he put it
“relentless hatred to impel us over
and beyond the natural limitations
of man.”
This use of hatred
to encourage the
dehumanization of
an adversary is but
another manifestation
of the doctrine found
throughout the centuries
to justify mass murder
and torture.
If hate was the solution
to all problems then the
heroes of the 20th century
would have been:
Mao,
and Guevara.
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Instead they are viewed in most
quarters as mass murderers and
criminals except for those who are
blinded by their “relentless hatred”
of their fellow human and/or
their political ideology.
History has demonstrated two
fundamental approaches to
change the world.
One way views hatred
of the other as an element
of the struggle in which
the ends justify whatever
means and has been the
way for the individuals
listed above.
Che Guevara was an admirer
of Mao Zedong and his
formulation of guerilla warfare
is adapted from the
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