Why is Che Guevara saluted as a hero?

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well when people are starving they'll beleive anything I guess

Funny you should mention Singapore. It cracks me up that the biggest fear they have there is that someone might pee in an elevator.

Tim

Maybe. Although pre-fidel Cuba was more than Batista, it was dominated by a small group of wealthy families that formed an oligarchy that posed an obstacle to development along the lines of the Singapore model. There is also a good case that Castro was pushed into the communist orbit by Nixon, who was obsessed with equating all leftists with communism. Che left Cuba shortly after the revolution, and a big factor was his disgust with Castro's policies of limited reform.

Given Cuba's geographic position and the Cold War, it seems to me that they were bound to have a government that was either very pro-US or very anti-US.

Because there are plenty more suckers out there who think Capitalism and 'the man' is out to get them. That and when you an angsty teenager, being socialist, communist, or anarchist is just the cool thing to do.

I tend to prefer this t-shirt myself though just because its fun to watch people like that squirm, pout, and storm off:

I was never fully sure about Che, I didn't study too much about him I had heard he was supposed to be kinda like a hispanic malcom x type figure or something.... But I had also heard something similar to this somewhere before. Well I can now see he was a full fledged tyrant.

most kids dont understand communism
I've read countless books about it...
and a few in Russian (took me a LONG time)

i guess if i was unhappy where i lived i'd move to where i would be happy

yes but these people can barely afford to eat...
and all around them the countries were exactly the same
then this man comes and promises bread, freedom and peace
I'd go with him

Because he had the integrity and passion to be willing to die for a cause he believed in, and also because had the same willingness to kill for his cause.

There is something to admire there, but also something to be feared and hated.

or maybe the people who don't make the distinction, don't know what they are saying?


That's because USSR communism was a new branch of Socialism, to an extreme, not the equivalent. Many socialists condemn Lenin's communism.

http://www.marxmail.org/faq/socialism_and_communism.htm



Why Japan is kinda low there? as their economy is very capitalist.

About Guevara, yes he was a murderer and a tyrant, full of hate, blaming the US for poor countries being poor, therefore a hate against Capitalism, he isn't a hero at all, just a barbaric man, doesn't mean socialist ideology is that bad though, mostly modern ideologies adjusting to the modern world. Not that I am exactly socialist, but not a capitalism advocate either, I believe a world economy based on a combination between Capitalism and Socialism might be better, IMO.

I own this shirt.

doesnt really work without the beret imo.

after all, its the beret that all the trendy students really dig and the true reason for the shirts popularity. Che is just the model.

Yeah, he was kind of a cutie, wasn't he?

Well, I mean in terms of socialism working and communism not because there is no evidence of either working. I know that there are distinct differences in the terms.


I know that. Most of the left has left that socialism, however, there is not socialism to replace that.


It is by the heritage institute. It does not matter how on earth you define freedom for this discussion so much as how they define it. Their definition would be relatively capitalistic.

Because their economy really isn't. Japan is known for its tariffs, its subsidies, and its corporate bailouts. In fact, the Japanese model is often pointed to by economists who dislike markets as a refutation of neo-liberalism's claims, so yeah, it isn't.

Here is an article on Mr. Guevara:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara

He was a rather interesting character, who liked chess, and who devoted his life to guerrilla warfare.
He also wrote a few books.

Maybe if he had been captured and imprisoned in Guantanamo, rather than executed in the jungle, then he might have eventually been broken, and regarded less as a hero with a cult following.