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Che Guevara in 10 (Not So) Great Quotes

Payto n Alexander

Ernesto Lynch, more commonly known by his chosen name, Che Guevara, was born in Rosario, Argentina to Irish and Argentine parents in 1928. Che, who was an instrumental f igure in the Cuban Revolution, and f ought to incite communist revolutions in several countries in South America, has long been the idol of lef twing teenagers and university students in the West due to the popularity of a f ew memorable anticonsumerist quotes f rom his written works. Ironically, his f amous portrait photograph, depicting his upturned f ace adorned with the beret of a communist guerrilla, has become one of the most f amous and widely marketed photographs in history, appearing on everything f rom T-shirts and cof f ee mugs to f lags and posters in Obama campaign of f ices. Yet Che was no innocent f reedom f ighter. Known as the Butcher of La Cabaa, Che Guevara is known to have ordered the execution of several hundred people he suspected of betraying his communist ideology. Of ten, he would have his soldiers and commanders shot without trial, in numerous cases perf orming the executions himself . Af ter successf ully taking over Cuba, Guevara proceeded to order the imprisonment of gay men, sought the execution of all political dissidents, severely restricted the press, tried to ban rock and roll music, and drove the Cuban economy into the ground. In his youth, he was even known by many of his f riends to be an incurable racist, and rarely bathed. In response to Ches entirely undeserved popularity among anti-establishment youth in the UK and around the world, many organisations have begun to put up posters with select quotes f rom the guerrilla f ighter, titled, Who Said T his: Che or Hitler? Invariably, all the quotes, selected f or their brutality, are f rom Guevara. Following in that vein, here are ten of the most revolting quotes f rom every university students f avourite f reedom f ighter, Che Guevara: Che Guevara 1) Youth must ref rain f rom ungratef ul questioning of governmental mandates. Instead, they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service.

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Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals! T he victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims!

4) We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with f reedom of the press. 5) To send men to the f iring squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. T hese procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. T his is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. 6) Hatred is the central element of our struggle! Hatred so violent that it propels a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him a violent and cold-blooded killing machine. Our soldiers must be thus. 7) T he blacks, those magnif icent examples of the Af rican race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of af f inity with washing, have seen their patch invaded by a dif f erent kind of slave: T he Portugese. 8) T he black is indolent and f ancif ul, he spends his money on f rivolity and drink; the European comes f rom a tradition of working and saving which f ollows him to this corner of America and drives him to get ahead. 9) I f ired a .32 caliber bullet into the right hemisphere of his brain which came out through his lef t temple. He moaned f or a f ew moments, then died. 10) Id like to conf ess, Papa, at that moment I discovered that I really like killing. If one of your friends or someone you know owns a Che shirt or poster, share this link with them, so that they can learn the truth about Che Guevara.