The real Che Guevara

[Sandokan]

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.

 

[Sandokan]

Che Guevara was a sadist | The Spectator

Why do people still glorify this child murderer?

By James Bartholomew, 28 October 2024

Che Guevara died 57 years ago this month and yet, even now, he remains the epitome of revolutionary cool. You never know when he is going to pop up. I came across him recently in the lobby of a hotel in Kandy in the highlands of Sri Lanka. There he was with that determined, heroic look under a dashing beret with a red star badge. He was on a poster dominating the wall above the capitalist till where the luxury hotel took payment.

Guevara didn’t care. He took out his pistol, held the barrel at the boy’s neck and fired. The boy was almost decapitated
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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.

 

[Sandokan]

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.

 

[Sandokan]

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."

 

[Cordelier]

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.

 

[Sandokan]

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.

 

[Sandokan]

6. Terror as a revolutionary weapon is an element of Bolshevism

Yes, that’s what the man who trained them in Mexico says, that they had this plan to achieve absolute power. And, of course, they get all this inheritance from the KGB and its satellite secret services. There is a very interesting book, El soviet caribeño, by César Reynal Aguilera, which argues that it was all a plan prepared by these services so that Fidel Castro could take over the resistance movement against Batista, which was not a communist movement.

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.

 

[Sandokan]

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.

 

[Sandokan]

7. Che has become a symbol of rebellion, a t-shirt. Is it possible to put an end to that?

Not as long as t-shirts continue to be sold—but the incredible thing is that the Che Guevara campaign, which was born with the aim of giving a romantic image of the Cuban revolution, has managed to make it frowned upon to criticize Cuba. It has surpassed those initial expectations and has created other myths of social justice or a great quality of life in a paradisiacal place.

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.

 

[Sandokan]

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.

 

[Sandokan]

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Or the famous Cuban healthcare.
This is another myth. I have done a lot of work on this issue, and it is really unheard of [in Cuba]. If you go to a local hospital, not to the centers for foreigners, the situation is indescribable: filth, lack of water and medicines, no air conditioning, etc. But this is a myth repeated publicly even by the likes of Obama and Colin Powell. We have done extensive work on this issue in which we denounced how the Pan American Health Organization, which represents the WHO in the area, is a machine completely co-opted by Cuba and helps to hide the reality.

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.

 

[Sandokan]

Should we love Che Guevara? (slate.com)

Don’t applaud The Motorcycle Diaries.

BY PAUL BERMAN
SEPT 24, 2004

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. 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 …”— and so on. He was killed in Bolivia in 1967, leading a guerrilla movement that had failed to enlist a single Bolivian peasant. And yet he succeeded in inspiring tens of thousands of middle class Latin-Americans to exit the universities and organize guerrilla insurgencies of their own. And these insurgencies likewise accomplished nothing, except to bring about the death of hundreds of thousands, and to set back the cause of Latin-American democracy—a tragedy on the hugest scale.
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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.