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Che Guevara

Apathy is your worst enemy

About Me


Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara or el Che, was an Argentine-born physician, Marxist, politician, and leader of Cuban and internationalist guerrillas. As a young man studying medicine, Guevara traveled "rough" throughout Latin America, bringing him into direct contact with the poverty in which many people lived. Through these experiences he became convinced that only revolution could remedy the region's economic inequality, leading him to study Marxism and become involved in Guatemala's social revolution under President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán. Some time later, Guevara became a member of Fidel Castro's paramilitary 26th of July Movement, which seized power in Cuba in 1959. After serving in various important posts in the new government and writing a number of articles and books on the theory and practice of guerrilla warfare, Guevara left Cuba in 1965 with the intention of fomenting revolutions first in the Congo-Kinshasa (later named the Democratic Republic of the Congo) and then in Bolivia, where he was captured in a CIA/ U.S. Army Special Forces-organized military operation. Guevara died at the hands of the Bolivian Army in La Higuera near Vallegrande on October 9, 1967. Participants in, and witnesses to, the events of his final hours testify that his captors executed him without trial. After his death, Guevara became an icon of socialist revolutionary movements worldwide.

My Interests

Economic theory, humanism, medicine, social equality, socialism, and fighting fascists!

Music:



Movies:

Hugo Chavez - The Revolution will not be Televised 1/4


A journalist follows the democratically-elected President of Venezuela as he survives a CIA sponsored coup attempt.Tags: president venezuela army coup fascism communism capitalism bush cia cover up conspiracy freedom war oil hugo chavez conflict democracy
If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.At the risk of sounding ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of love.I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel!It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory.Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.Silence is argument carried out by other means.The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Rockefeller, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude entails, are left out of the picture, and it is not always possible to make the people in general see this.There are no boundaries in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, for a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory; just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us.To accomplish much you must first lose everything.We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality, the guerrilla outbreak cannot be promoted, since the possibilities of peaceful struggle have not yet been exhausted.
-Ernesto Che Guevara

Books:

Das Kapital

Heroes:

Salvador Allende, César Chávez, Noam Chomsky, Eugene Debs, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Vladimir Lenin, Subcomandante Marcos, Max Matern, Karl Marx, Óscar Romero, Ernst Thälmann, Leon Trotsky, Malcolm X, and revolutionaries worldwide who fight for liberation and justice!

My Blog

The next U.S. President?

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Posted by Che Guevara on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:43:00 PST

14 Signs of Fascism

14 Signs of Fascism Political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt recently wrote an article about fascism ("Fascism Anyone?", Free Inquiry, Spring 2003, page 20). Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germ...
Posted by Che Guevara on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:47:00 PST

Yes, I'm a socialist and proud of it!

I believe in equal rights, fair wages, a clean environment, and basically a life with less stress and where everyone gets along with each other and everyone's basic needs are taken care of. ...
Posted by Che Guevara on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:51:00 PST

Jesus was a socialist

"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." [Matthew 19:24] In the temple courts [Jesus] found men selling cattle, sheep and dov...
Posted by Che Guevara on Thu, 17 May 2007 04:49:00 PST

The Iraq War

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Posted by Che Guevara on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 08:27:00 PST

Capitalism


Posted by Che Guevara on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 07:02:00 PST

Joe Republican

Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With h...
Posted by Che Guevara on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 01:20:00 PST