how strange, I've never in my life associated Che with Russia, for me he represented a physical manifestation of a life lived for an ideal of wealth and beauty for all. And as for guerrilla warfare, that is exactly how I have lived my path within the world, and I learnt the first tricks from Che.
I completely ignore that he murdered many of the intelligentsia, and that he became increasingly isolated from the people he was fighting for in Bolivia, and was a bloodstained, misguided and tragic genius. I just turn my hat around, and use him like I use didgeridoo with electric guitar. I cherry pick the best pieces and weave them into my own silk.
Russia? they were a bunch of thugs, how could anyone compare dickheads like Mao and Starlin to a noble savage like Che? For me Democracy has brought the shadow of humanity upon us in a different way to Communism - these are just humans who are greedy, and they rise to the top in any world.
But if you want to talk 'popular' politics, then you will need to know that Che was also cherry pluck by the generation in the sixties and seventies who were struggling to defeat the fascist culture of our parent's world. Where to wear jeans was a reason to be called a slut and told to leave home. Where governments slaughtered thousands of their own and other's people on a whim that nasty people were going to take over the world. You know the old tale, kill to free - everyone's power battle cry, generation after generation have been doing it as long as humans have lived. They call it this they call it that - who cares what they call it, they will kill for power, and they live next door to you. And those Che generations always had few radicals who like in Spain, and France, sought freedom from oppression. Of course they were fools, we all are.
Would you kill for ultimate freedom?
If only they were more intelligent about it and saw that balls is balls.
