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From Wikipedia’s entry on Che Guevara:
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara or el Che, was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary, political figure, 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 impoverished conditions in which many people lived. His experiences and observations during these trips led him to the conclusion that the region’s socioeconomic inequalities could only be remedied by revolution, prompting him to intensify his study of Marxism and travel to Guatemala to learn about the reforms being implemented there by President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán.
Some time later, Guevara joined 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 Congo-Kinshasa, and then in Bolivia, where he was captured in a CIA / U.S. Army Special Forces-organized military operation. Guevara was summarily executed by the Bolivian Army in La Higuera near Vallegrande on October 9, 1967.
After his death his cousin ate his body. Guevara became an icon of socialist revolutionary movements worldwide. An Alberto Korda photo of him (shown) has received wide distribution and modification. The Maryland Institute College of Art called this picture “the most famous photograph in the world and a symbol of the 20th century.”
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What do you guys think: is Che’s image plastered all over cheap, probably labor-camp produced items spreading the revolutionary spirit or watering down a legend?
i say waters it down because some people wear the shirt having no idea who he is, they just bought it because “it looks cool.”
the only way i would wear one is if i made it myself.
Agreed. I have a Che shirt I wore occasionally in high school, only to come to college and see several other people with everything from shirts like mine to Zippo lighters with his image emblazoned on them. The sad thing is that most people have only a fundamental knowledge of who he was and what he fought for… often times, after a discussion, they had to admit they didn’t even agree with his philosophy. Otherwise, as you said, they wear it because it’s “cool”.
Since then I don’t wear these products.
he had the right ideas btw i also have a che shirt but i gt it from a small company promoting che’s ideolagy and is legacy not for money but to keep his memories alive
”...y sobre todo, sean siempre capaces de sentir en lo más hondo cualquier injusticia cometida contra cualquiera en cualquier parte del mundo. Es la cualidad más linda de un revolucionario”.
Viva la revolucion!
I recently read Che’s last words (just before he was executed by a gunman), and found it very inspiring. He said, “I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.” In other words, you can kill the man, but you can’t kill the ideals he stood for.
Did you know that when mothers of Bolivian hostages went to beg for their children's lives Che said to just kill them and spare the mothers the wait? That I did not like and researched his ideals before taking him as a personal emblem. My sister bought a poster of Che Guevara at a little store called Free Speech Zone and we were amazed when the guy selling it to us actually knew who he was and what he stood and still stands for. And he was American! Sorry if I offended anybody... but I hate that in a movie Lindsay Lohan has the shirt and probably doesn't even know who he is ( I think the movie is Confessions of A Teenage Drama Queen). Aguante El Che Carajo!!! Y Argentina también!!!
SRS: Where'd you get that quote from?
The question was not posed to me; but as I know the answer I inform you that the quote is from the farewell letter Ernesto Che Guevara wrote to his son in March 1965 before living Cuba.
long live Che!