(Rosario, Argentina, 1928 - Higueras, Bolivia, 1967) Latin-American Revolutionary. Along with Fidel Castro, whose movement he joined in 1956, he was one of the main architects of the triumph of the Cuban revolution (1959). He later held positions of great relevance in the new regime, but, dissatisfied with the inoperation of the offices and faithful to his purpose of extending the revolution to other Latin American countries, in 1966 he resumed his guerrilla activity in Bolivia, where he would be captured and executed a year later.
Given his life thus in the fight against imperialism and dictatorship, Che Guevara became the greatest revolutionary myth of the 20th century. He was immediately an icon of the youth of May 68, and his figure has remained as a timeless symbol of ideals of freedom and justice that, like the heroes of yesteryear, he judged more valuable than life itself.
Ernesto Che Guevara was born into a wealthy family in Argentina, where he studied medicine. His leftist militancy led him to participate in the opposition against Juan Domingo Perón; Since 1953 he traveled through Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Guatemala, discovering the prevailing misery among the masses of Latin America and the omnipresence of North American imperialism in the region, and participating in multiple opposition movements, experiences that definitely inclined him towards Marxism.
In 1955 Ernesto Che Guevara met Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl Castro in Mexico, who were preparing a revolutionary expedition to Cuba. Guevara befriended the Castros, joined the group as a doctor, and landed with them in Cuba in 1956. Once the guerrillas settled in the Sierra Maestra, Guevara became Fidel’s lieutenant and commanded one of the two columns that came out of the eastern mountains toward the west to liberate the island. He participated in the decisive battle for the capture of Santa Clara (1958) and finally entered Havana in 1959, ending the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.
The new revolutionary Cuba granted Guevara Cuban nationality and appointed him head of the Militia and director of the Agrarian Reform Institute (1959), then president of the National Bank and Minister of Economy (1960), and, finally, Minister of Industry (1961). ). In those years, Guevara represented Cuba in various international forums, in which he frontally denounced US imperialism. On a trip around the world he met Nasser, Nehru, Sukarno and Tito (1959); On another trip he met various Soviet leaders and the Chinese Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong.:based-department:
In the task of building a new society in Cuba, and especially in the field of economics, Che Guevara was one of Fidel Castro’s most tireless collaborators. In the economic controversy that took place at the beginning of the new cuba, he opted for an original, creative and not bureaucratic or institutionalized interpretation of Marxist principles. Looking for a path to the real independence of Cuba, he strove for the industrialization of the country, linking it to the aid of the Soviet Union, once the attempt to invade the island by the United States had failed and the socialist character of the Cuban revolution had been clarified ( 1961).
Now relieved of his positions in the Cuban state, Che Guevara returned to Latin America in 1966 to launch a revolution that he hoped would be continental in scope: Bolivia thanks to its position in the middle of the continent and its strong natural defences would make ot the ideal starting socialist state.
However, his action did not catch on with the Bolivian masses. From the beginning, his group, baptized as the National Liberation Army and made up of Cuban veterans from the Sierra Maestra and some Bolivian communists, found themselves lacking in support from the peasants, completely alien to the movement. Without any popular support in the rural world, and without support in the big cities for the rejection of communist political organizations, the chances of success drastically diminished.
Isolated in a jungle region where he suffered the exacerbation of his asthmatic disease, Ernesto Guevara was betrayed by local peasants and fell into an ambush by the Bolivian army in the Valle Grande region, where he was wounded and arrested on October 8, 1967. Given Since Che had already become a symbol for young people around the world, the Bolivian military, advised by the CIA, wanted to destroy the revolutionary myth, assassinating him and then exposing his corpse, photographing himself with him, and bury him in secret. In 1997 the remains of Che Guevara were located, exhumed and transferred to Cuba, where they were buried with all honors by the Castro’s Cuba
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it’s a large and complicated topic but in the western world, the general idea is that trots are often very useless at best, and sabotaging at worst.
In all western countries the movements were destroyed and the only groups remaining are the ones the never posed a real threat. Those are the trots. For many reasons trots are unable to be effective. On theory they are stuck on the stalin/trotsky split and refuse to deconstruct their propagandized view of history on the USSR, leading them to make wrong analysis and to wrong strategies. On practice, this goes with their theory and the fact only the nonthreatening groups being left alive, they often don’t do much beyond a very vague “agitation”, and in many cases this is selling newspapers. They don’t have much of a revolutionary strategy beyond “we must agitate and the masses will at some point organize”, their relationship with the masses are very confused since they tend to reject concepts of the mass line, or of the actual vanguard strategy (what they think the vanguard is is often wrong).
On the ground, anyone who’s tried to do some organizing has learned to fucking hate many trots, not necessarily all of them but when there’s a group that’s sabotaging everything, creating division and splits, being ultras and calling everyone “social fascists” or stalinists or whatever, they’re trots. But that’s also because there’s often no one else.
Another joke about trots besides the newspapers is that they split as easily as they breathe, for all the reasons above, and this is really true. Something like “1 trot is a party, 2 trots is factional infighting, 3 trots is a split”.
Also historically the trots have literally never achieved anything, none of their strategies have ever worked. Entryism is a profoundly stupid and wrong strategy. Their “agitation” is mostly useless because they don’t really have a good reason why/how/for what purpose they agitate. Their revolutionary strategy can be summarized as “at some point people will be informed enough, then general strike, then ???, then we win” Their opinions/positions on international topics tend to be ultra and very stupid, calling AES “state capitalism” or removed socialism or whatever. etc etc