"...the
true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is
impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
Perhaps it is one of the great dramas of the leader that he or she must
combine a passionate spirit with a cold intelligence and make painful
decisions without flinching. Our vanguard revolutionaries must idealize
this love of the people, of the most sacred causes, and make it one and
indivisible. They cannot descend, with small doses of daily affection,
to the level where ordinary people put their love into practice.
The leaders of the revolution have children just beginning to talk, who
are not learning to call their fathers by name; wives, from whom they
have to be separated as part of the general sacrifice of their lives to
bring the revolution to its fulfilment; the circle of their friends is
limited strictly to the number of fellow revolutionists. There is no
life outside of the revolution.
In these circumstances
one must have a great deal of humanity and a strong sense of justice
and truth in order not to fall into extreme dogmatism and cold
scholasticism, into isolation from the masses. We must strive every day
so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual
deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force."
- Ernesto "Che" Guevara, born 14 June 1928.
Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader,
diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution,
his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of
rebellion and global insignia within popular culture. As a young medical
student, he travelled throughout South America and was radicalized by
the poverty, hunger, and disease he witnessed. His burgeoning desire to
help overturn what he saw as the capitalist exploitation of Latin
America by the U.S. prompted his involvement in Guatemala's social
reforms under President Jacobo Árbenz, whose eventual CIA-assisted
overthrow at the behest of the United Fruit Company solidified Guevara's
political ideology. Later, while living in Mexico City, he met Raúl and
Fidel Castro, joined their 26th of July Movement, and sailed to Cuba
aboard the yacht, Granma, with the intention of overthrowing U.S.-backed
Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. He soon rose to prominence among the
insurgents, was promoted to second-in-command, and played a pivotal role
in the victorious two-year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista
regime.
"...the
true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is
impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
Perhaps it is one of the great dramas of the leader that he or she must
combine a passionate spirit with a cold intelligence and make painful
decisions without flinching. Our vanguard revolutionaries must idealize
this love of the people, of the most sacred causes, and make it one and
indivisible. They cannot descend, with small doses of daily affection,
to the level where ordinary people put their love into practice.
The leaders of the revolution have children just beginning to talk, who are not learning to call their fathers by name; wives, from whom they have to be separated as part of the general sacrifice of their lives to bring the revolution to its fulfilment; the circle of their friends is limited strictly to the number of fellow revolutionists. There is no life outside of the revolution.
In these circumstances one must have a great deal of humanity and a strong sense of justice and truth in order not to fall into extreme dogmatism and cold scholasticism, into isolation from the masses. We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force."
- Ernesto "Che" Guevara, born 14 June 1928.
Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia within popular culture. As a young medical student, he travelled throughout South America and was radicalized by the poverty, hunger, and disease he witnessed. His burgeoning desire to help overturn what he saw as the capitalist exploitation of Latin America by the U.S. prompted his involvement in Guatemala's social reforms under President Jacobo Árbenz, whose eventual CIA-assisted overthrow at the behest of the United Fruit Company solidified Guevara's political ideology. Later, while living in Mexico City, he met Raúl and Fidel Castro, joined their 26th of July Movement, and sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht, Granma, with the intention of overthrowing U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. He soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to second-in-command, and played a pivotal role in the victorious two-year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista regime.
The leaders of the revolution have children just beginning to talk, who are not learning to call their fathers by name; wives, from whom they have to be separated as part of the general sacrifice of their lives to bring the revolution to its fulfilment; the circle of their friends is limited strictly to the number of fellow revolutionists. There is no life outside of the revolution.
In these circumstances one must have a great deal of humanity and a strong sense of justice and truth in order not to fall into extreme dogmatism and cold scholasticism, into isolation from the masses. We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force."
- Ernesto "Che" Guevara, born 14 June 1928.
Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia within popular culture. As a young medical student, he travelled throughout South America and was radicalized by the poverty, hunger, and disease he witnessed. His burgeoning desire to help overturn what he saw as the capitalist exploitation of Latin America by the U.S. prompted his involvement in Guatemala's social reforms under President Jacobo Árbenz, whose eventual CIA-assisted overthrow at the behest of the United Fruit Company solidified Guevara's political ideology. Later, while living in Mexico City, he met Raúl and Fidel Castro, joined their 26th of July Movement, and sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht, Granma, with the intention of overthrowing U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. He soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to second-in-command, and played a pivotal role in the victorious two-year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista regime.
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