The Truth About Che Guevara

[ajoknoblauch]

But Che and Fidel inspired the arts: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/arts/music/cubanacan-imagines-when-che-and-fidel-compared-golf-swings.html

 

[Matt84]

Having studied Latin American revolutions in detail, I can say this - he was flawed. He was deeply flawed.

So was Gandhi.

Che's frustration with the structures he fought were separate (and justified) from how he lived his personal life. Hence his iconic status.

Unfortunately, his message about how to confront those structures was the opposite of Gandhi's. He was a doctor who lost his way having witnessed evil, and in choosing violence as his vehicle for change, showing there would be no compromise, he personally exacerbated the right wing's evil.

Comparing a racist homophobe warlord with the first man in history who achieved actual political change without the use of force is the definition of obscene