There have been some media coverage in the late week behind the 40th Anniversary of the Death of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and so I feel a need to share some thoughts on Che Guevara today.
Since the late 60's, as I have grown and matured with age and experience, I have obtained a clearer and deeper understanding of the life and death of Che Guevara. He was a hard core driven and determined man who was a genius of his time in history. He was incredibly gifted in different significant ways and there is no doubt that he seemed to see the liberation of the oppressed strictly in terms of armed violent revolution via the guerrilla warfare method utilizing the 'foco' theory as he was mind-set to put the 'foco' theory into social-military practice.
I remember being given a copy of The Diary of Che Guevara when I was in my late teens one night. A Brother Ponce from the Stockton Area let me have his copy when he dropped me off one night when I lived by 11th & F Streets in Barrio Centro. I really thought I was getting subversive then! I had it for quite a while, though, later I left it behind as I have so many of my other books ~my Favorite Book is The Holy Bible {King James Version}.
I am reminded of the primer by Companero Regis Degray Revolution in the Revolution? and how close he was to Che Guevara in the battle field of operation for a time in Bolivia.
It is clear that Che Guevara and his men in Bolivia did not have the kind of moral and material support they should of had from the Bolivian Community Party and it is obvious that Castro's Cuba could of done more in a military sense, yet the prevailing situation in Bolivia at the time did not create the subjective factor necessary among the local peasantry in order to endure the physical survival of the initial guerilla band. One cannot lightly export socialist revolution in the process of a protracted revolutionary war without the on-going support of the people who are impacted by a given social-military situation. We always need to take into full consideration the collective consciousness of the people , especially in situations that demand their full unconditional support. Why did Che Guevara and his band of guerillas choose Bolivia? Was it simply the regional centrality of Bolivia in Latin America?
Interested companeros should examine the nightmare of The African Dream: The Diaries of the Revolutionary War in the Congo by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara in order to better understand the kind of desperate despair that Che Guevara got himself caught up in as a protracted intercontinental process of armed guerrilla warfare that expanded from Cuba, to the Congo, then ended in his untimely tragic death in Bolivia.
I wonder about Che Guevara as some Christians do about Jesus Christ? What would Che Guevara do if he was alive today? What would Che do?
In this new Millennium we can now see, if we look, that the big battles are in the realm of raising consciousness via mass education. It is not enough simply to wage a violent revolution, overthrow the enemy state, get the people's military vanguard in power and it will be all good. Look at Russia! Look at China! Look at some of the repressive aspects of Cuba, for example, in relation to the government of Cuba not allowing unlimited Internet Access for the people. What are they afraid of? Knowledge? Access to knowledge? Uncensored communications?
The policy of the people's vanguard elements should be to always engage in factual analyzes of actual conditions ~ the old dialectical materialist approach of CONCRETE ANALYSIS OF CONCRETE CONDITIONS~ in a given local situation with a global overview that comprehends the intrinsic interconnections in connected reality, then, practical responses to those given actual conditions.
The U.S.A. is not Miramar. Indeed, the U.S.A. is already a fascist repressive rogue regime. However it is subtle, scientific and sophisticated. We need to approach the whole situation before us with a comprehensive understanding of our own immediacy here and now.
For us within the continental borders of the United States, we should continue to exhaust all legal peaceful means of resistance and not allow ourselves to commit any kind of revolutionary suicide that would ultimately serve the evil interests of the repressive forces of reaction. Total combat is to utilize all ways and means, all tactics and tricks, all lines, angles and trajectories as we strive towards total liberation, including liberating our own spiritual consciousness. Nada mas ahora.
~Peta-de-Aztlan~
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Photos: Life & Death of Che Guevara
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http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2007/octubre/mar9/41vigen-i.html
Every year Che has greater relevance,
Evo Morales affirms
VALLEGRANDE, Bolivia, October 8.—Every year the thinking and actions of Argentine-Cuban revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara have greater relevance, affirmed Bolivian President Evo Morales on Monday, closing the national event commemorating the 40th anniversary of Che’s assassination.
According to Prensa Latina, speaking before a multi-generational crowd from many countries, the leader stated that the process of change his government is advancing is openly “100% Guevarist and socialist.” Che will continue living forever, he said and later, “This struggle will continue, as long as capitalism exists, as long as neoliberalism does not change.”
For his part, speaking on behalf of Cuba, Division General Rogelio Acevedo, a comrade of Che in the Sierra Maestra, emphasized that the heroic fighter’s ideas can be seen coming to life through the close to seven million medical consultations Cuban doctors have offered in Bolivia and the 260,000-plus people who have learned to read and write using the Cuban Yo sí puedo method.
Tributes took place in Argentina, Guatemala and Panama, while in Angola, students and teachers at the Ernesto Guevara School also remembered him in a meeting at the Cuban embassy. Pedro Ross Leal, ambassador to that country and member of the Political Bureau, thanked Angolans for the gesture and spoke on the significance of the life and work of the heroic fighter.
Venezuelan Vice President Jorge Rodríguez, accompanied by Cuban Ambassador Germán Sánchez, unveiled a monument honoring the revolutionary at a site in the Venezuelan Andes which Che visited in 1952, Notimex reported. (Ronald Suárez)
Translated by Granma International
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