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The real Che Guevara

Che became a pop culture icon, the patron saint of progressives who wear his picture. Among them, he became a symbol of countercultural rebellion against capitalism. But in an ironic twist of history, Che owes his posthumous pop culture success to old-fashioned property rights.
 
Che Guevara in a letter to his father in 1957 wrote, “I really like killing”, and to his wife, he wrote, “I’m here in Cuba’s hills, alive and thirsting for blood.” The man was a sadist.
 
During his five months in charge of La Cabaña he ordered the execution of at least 63 political prisoner and killed many more afterwards. He enjoy killing people.
 
Che toll to Duke Ortega, head of La Cabaña's tribunals: “What one need to know is if it is necessary to shoot him. Nothing more. You should always give the accused the possibility to do his discharge before executing him. And this means, understand me well, that the accused should always be executed, without mattering which has been his discharge. Make no mistake about this. Our mission doesn’t consist in giving procedural guarantees to anyone, but to make the revolution, and we must begin by the same procedural guarantees.” What a monster he was. ”Terror as a revolutionary weapon is an element of Bolshevism."
 
During his five months in charge of La Cabaña he ordered the execution of at least 63 political prisoner and killed many more afterwards. He enjoy killing people.

I don't deny that the killings made for some awkward moments - especially at parties - but what can you say? Che was a pretty intense dude. Really complicated, you know?

I don't care what anyone says, though... the man knew how to make a mean Rum punch.
 
Che was absolutely merciless and willing to encourage mass murder as a mean to his end of a communist revolution. “What we affirm is that we must proceed along the path of liberation even if this costs millions of atomic victims.” The imposition of a socialist state always ends with mass murders, intolerance, mass poverty, crime and awful quality of life.
 
6. Terror as a revolutionary weapon is an element of Bolshevism
Che was absolutely merciless and willing to encourage mass murder as a mean to his end of a communist revolution. “What we affirm is that we must proceed along the path of liberation even if this costs millions of atomic victims.” The imposition of a socialist state always ends with mass murders, intolerance, mass poverty, crime and awful quality of life.
 
Socialism is a secular, civic religion for leftists. Che was a little Stalin. A poster boy for Antifa. Now we know where Antifa gets their inspiration. I wondered how young Americans idolize a man who wanted to launch a preemptive nuclear strike on their homeland.
 
7. Che has become a symbol of rebellion, a t-shirt. Is it possible to put an end to that?
According to Vargas Llosa in his book “The Killing Machine: Che Guevara, from Communist Firebrand to Capitalist Brand,” wrote “Che Guevara, who did so much (or was it so little?) to destroy capitalism, is now a quintessential capitalist brand.” All types of merchandise bearing Che face or name are marketed by big corporations and small businesses.
 
Che became a pop culture icon, the patron saint of progressives who wear his picture. Among them, he became a symbol of countercultural rebellion against capitalism. But in an ironic twist of history, Che owes his posthumous pop culture success to old-fashioned property rights.
 
They talk about the great healthcare in Cuba, and portray the medical facilities that serve the foreigners, members of the power elite and top military, an exclusive health care system which offers excellent medical care with the best resources and optimal conditions. This system is out of bounds for the common Cuban citizen. For them there are the filthy hospitals where they have to bring their own bed sheets, blankets, food and others basic necessities.
 
The cult of Ernesto Che Guevara is an episode in the moral callousness of our time. Che was a totalitarian. He achieved nothing but disaster. 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.