Che Guevara is the face that launched a billion T-shirts. Even now, more than fifty years after his death, he inspires would-be revolutionaries and social justice warriors. Why is his appeal so enduring? Guatemalan radio and TV host @GloriaAlvarez85 explains. pic.twitter.com/oOxWLDTRdr
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Thought For the Day
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
The man did not bathe, making him an inspiration for okupiers.
Hey! I have to force myself to bathe/shower.
Generally, I ‘get’ revolutionaries and the social justice warriors. The only thing I don’t ‘get,’ Is it the evil or the stupidity that motivates them?
Either way, they need to be confronted.
A bit of both. Capable men create comfortable conditions. The youths who grew up in those comfortable conditions fancy their matrix is merely their due, not the achievement of people who came before and maintained by contemporaries they don’t know from a cord of wood. I recently saw a quote attributed to the punk musician Jello Biafra; he says he was attracted to the idea of anarchy in his youth, until in discussing it with others someone asks who’s going to fix the sewers.
I could blame the youth. Keep in mind, though, that institutional leadership isn’t in their hands. It’s in the hands of contemporaries of mine, who really ought to know better. In some cases, it’s because they’re inveterate fools. Have a gander at capsule biographies of the Minneapolis city council. About 3/4 of them are people who’ve had a simulacrum of an adult life rather than the real thing. That doesn’t describe the Governor of Minnesota, however.
The number murdered by Communists is closer to 300 million….and counting.
Where can I get that shirt?
https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Che-Guevara-Communism-killed-100-million-people-by-thecriticalg/9231300.GDEN5
We should note that Che was killed by the Bolivian Army, an organization not given to nuance, when he tried to lead a revolution there. Despite Bolivia’s problems, they seem to have been quite prescient about a future that resembled that of Cuba and wanted none of it.