Posted on 11/28/2020 12:22:56 PM PST by WTanner1776
Many people today don’t really know who the real Che Guevara was. They think of him as some sort of communist Robin Hood, whereas in reality, he was a monstrous murderer and fanatical communist ideologue. Perhaps that misconception is one of the reasons why Ayn Rand lashes out against the Robin Hood tale in Atlas Shrugged; it is used to justify the actions of all sorts of evil men and what they did to further the cause of forced wealth redistribution.
(Excerpt) Read more at genzconservative.com ...
Che Guevara; in a letter to his father: “individual thought should be a crime punishable by death”
He was no threat to the Leftazoids. None of them ever had an original thought.
I saw a few idiot college kids a few years ago, wearing Che Guevara t shirts. Either they love the guy, or they don’t know the real story of him. Either way, it’s a sad commentary on some ignorant young people.
An eight foot tall glass monument in the town of Merida was destroyed less than two weeks after it was erected. Even Venezuelans know the guy was pue evil.
Robin Hood did not do "forced wealth redistribution" he was fighting against it.
He was taking back unjust and excessive taxes and returning it to the people who had earned it.
Ba-Ba-Black Sheep have you any wool?
Yes Sir, Yes Sir
Three Bags Full,
One for the Master,
One for the Dame
And one for the little boy who cries down the lane
The master was the local lord, the dame was the church and the little boy was the commoner who had just paid a 66% tax on his gross income.
No wonder he was crying.
Butt, butt, butt, santana said...................
A couple of years ago, I went on a weekend thing with my wife, her sister and her sister’s son.
Nice kid, art major, but like many kids, kind of clueless about certain things. We were going out to eat one night, and he comes down wearing a Che shirt.
We had the following conversation:
ME: “Do you know who that guy is on your shirt?”
NEPHEW: “Ummm...he’s a revolutionary guy?”
ME: “Yeah. Do you know what kind of “revolutionary guy”?”
NEPHEW: Umm...no.
ME: “It was his job to have people who disagreed with Castro dragged out of their homes in the middle of the night and murdered in front of their families, and then the families were sometimes murdered. This guy was the one who did it.”
NEPHEW: “Um...I just kind of like the shirt.”
ME: “Ah.”
Why do you keep chopping this blog off after three sentences? When you go to the blog, you get one popup after another. If it’s your blog, just post it. If it’s someone else’s, tell him to fix it! And until he does, tell him you will post the articles here.
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In any case, there was recently an excellent article in the Foundation of Economic Education about the real Che Guevara and how evil he was. Rather than trying to summarize it, I’ll just include a few clippings from it and let you draw your own conclusions. Hopefully, after reading it you’ll understand why the real Che Guevara was so evil and why the false image many modern socialists have of him is just another example of how modern socialists don’t understand socialism.
Read the article here: The Real Che
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The Article on the Real Che Guevara:
First, on who modern socialists think Che Guevara was and their incorrect view of his actions:
In film and pop culture, Che comes off as an adventurous motorcyclist, a humble-living commoner, a romantic egalitarian revolutionary, and a swashbuckling sex symbol. His ghastly history as one of Fidel Castro’s favorite thugs routinely gets whitewashed because, in spite of all the murders, he supposedly had good intentions (read: hate the rich, concentrate power, eliminate dissent, help the poor by creating more of them).
From: The Real Che Guevara
Next, on Che’s hypocrisy and wealthy lifestyle. Despite demanding that his subjects live in abject poverty to further the socialist ideal, he lived the life of a very wealthy man, showing who really benefits from socialism:
Upon the victory of the 1959 communist revolution in Cuba, Che commandeered for himself one of the most luxurious mansions in Havana—complete with a yacht harbor, monster swimming pool, seven bathrooms, sauna and massage salon, and five television sets.
From: The Real Che Guevara
Third, on Che’s crimes against humanity. Despite the fake view of Che that many modern socialists have, the real Che Guevara was an evil man and mass murderer:
Che “played a central role in establishing Cuba’s security machinery” in the early days of the Castro regime. In that capacity, Che supervised the torture and execution of untold thousands of Cubans without trial. He had a special affection for firing squads.
Finally, on Che’s economic incompetence:
Che was Castro’s economic czar, though he knew nothing about economics beyond Marxist bumper stickers. His former deputy Ernesto Betancourt said Che was “ignorant of the most elementary economic principles.” Nonetheless, he actually wrote communist Cuba’s agrarian reform law, limiting the size of all farms and creating state-run communes. Production plummeted and is still lower today than before the revolution.
Conclusion:
Hopefully, you can now see who the real Che Guevara was and why he was so evil. He was no Robin Hood-like do-gooder, but rather an evil and incompetent communist murderer that shows just what the true nature of socialism is.
The simple fact of the 20th Century is that socialism killed tens of millions, if not over 100 million, people. All around the world, socialist death camps like those in The Gulag Archipelago murdered socialist subject after socialist while millions of other subjects starved in the countryside or died by firing squad in a forest. Socialism was a horrible force, a force of murder.
And the real Che Guevara was part of that. He murdered everyone who disagreed with him and many others who simply lived lifestyles that he disagreed with. While America was becoming the most prosperous nation on the planet, Che and his socialist buddies were running around the jungle, overthrowing governments and killing thousands of innocent civilians. Then, when they won, they lived in luxury and mismanaged nations while their subjects starved.
Is that the type of person the left wants to emulate? Perhaps. They certainly act like it is with their attacks on billionaires, support of widespread looting and rioting, and have many anti-American thoughts. The Democratic Party is now the party of Marxism. So, maybe it does want to follow in Che’s blood-stained, communist footsteps.
But, I really do not think that that applies to the vast majority of Democrats, who are good people and patriotic Americans that simply have a different outlook on life than Republicans. They do not want socialism or Marxism. They are not in support of murderous policies like those of Che. All they want is a better life and opportunity for their children, as most of us do.
But, the fact remains, campus socialists and Democrat politicians honor the memory of Che Guevara. They are not pro-American, they are anti-American and anti-Western. They hate our nation and its founding ideals. While we want increased prosperity, they just want to tear down the rich. Like Che, they just want to destroy, not build. And remember, that’s how socialism works.
Mainstream Democrats need to disavow those people, the people who honor and want to emulate Che. The real Che Guevara was a horrible person. We cannot let his worldview become and accepted one in America. It would lead only to violence and destruction. It would destroy our nation.
For that reason, it is important to call out people who support him. In supporting Che, they’re really supporting a murderer.
By: Gen Z Conservative
I see your point, but in popular culture, Robin Hood takes from ANY rich man, not those who obtained their wealth by taking it from others. That is pretty much how the overwhelming majority of people think of Robin Hood.
And of course, the Left wants people to think that way as well.
Popular culture has a lot to answer for.
You and I agree completely on that.
Funny you would choose McCarthy as an example...I have done quite a bit of reading about him, and it is a sore spot with me.
See my Freep Page...:)
Yes, he was. Che’ himself shot the father of a now passed old friend (thoracic surgeon)... in the head (blew his head off in fact). Right in front of the then 20 year old son. The son went to Jesuit School with Fidel (he knew Fidel- made no difference, not to the psychopath Che’). Che’ enjoyed killing children in front of their parents and vs versa. The reason he murdered my friend’s father-— he was demanding all the firearms in their home in Havana- there were none and his father insisted there were none. Che’ was working off a police list compiled by Batista, from 15 years prior. This horrible true event has stuck w/me for decades, and miss very much a professional colleague who shared a lot more of the reality that is the Cuba he escaped. A Board Certified Thoracic Surgeon.
See the writings and interviews of the Cuban Anti-Communist Patriot (who loves the US) Humberto Fontava:
http://www.hfontova.com/che.html
Digging in to the cited article from the page— can see that Humberto Fontava is prominently cited and quoted.
Check out his writings. A true American Patriot- against Communists and all of their mixed “ilk” AntiFA , BLM the works. He knows it all.
Robin Hood was a mythical character. Che Guevara was a real character. All too horribly real.
Of course, I presume the introduction into the discussion had to do with the evils of socialism.
In his “Christmas Carol’’ Scrooge is made out to be the bad guy but at virtually every chapter in the story someone is always trying to get money out of him for some ‘’charitable'' purpose.
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