Are all CHe admirers commies? - i'm confused

[DementedChild]

Yeah well, are all Che admirers Commies or Leftists? Cuz i went up to this one chick and asked her if she was a commie( she was wearing a Che shirt) and she said "nah" and i was like woah.... so i am just curious. And also I saw some guy walking around with a Che shirt and wearing the latest "nike" shoes, I asked him if he was a commie and he said "yah" and again i was like woah...

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

like, welcome to che-lives, demented. Like, this site is, like, for communists who like, like che.

sorry for screwin' with ya, it was just pretty funny to read your post

[Deniz Gezmis]

Just like the tshirts that have Soviet printed on them, CCCP too. =/ Fucking ignorant assholes.

The answer to your question is no. Many people wear Che tshirts because they look cool, Not because they are supporters of communism.

>=/

(Edited by Death at 4:20 pm on July 28, 2003)

[CienfuegosJnr]

You can find Che shrts, pants and jackets for about $US300+ in Mexico, neither campesinos or Cubans can buy them....
I asked a girl in high school about her Che shirt and she said "Yeah the guy from Rage against the machine" phhh.....

[Deniz Gezmis]

Quote: from CienfuegosJnr on 4:31 pm on July 28, 2003
You can find Che shrts, pants and jackets for about $US300+ in Mexico

Im furious with anger. Capitalist fuckers.. >>>=(

(Edited by Death at 4:49 pm on July 28, 2003)

[FatFreeMilk]

Yes, like for example take these two senior guys at my highschool last year. At the end of the year these two guys ( Marco & Jesus)who were always sporting Che t shirts asked me if I knew who the guy on my folder was. ( It was a picture of Che W/a machine gun). Jesus started rambling on how 15 thousand people were killed in mexico because of him. I asked him what that was all about and he had no idea. I asked him if he was a communist and he was all " I'm not into politics".I asked him if he even new what communism was and he just repeated the same dumb ass statement. Marco was even worse at answering the simplest questions. All they knew about Che was his name. The funniest thing about this though was when Jesus started telling me that Che was cuban because he saw a picture of him with fidel...............

When you see someone walking down the street w/ che's image across their chest, they probably have no idea who he was and what he did. He just "looks cool" :(

[MikeyBoy]

You can find Che shrts, pants and jackets for about $US300+ in Mexico, neither campesinos or Cubans can buy them....


Even I can't afford that!

[Organic Revolution]

alot of people just like the "cool" look of che it makes them seem more "intelectual"

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

I wear a che shirt becasue i think he's a great revolutionary and represents fight for liberation of the working class, but the shirt is also a friggin' babe magnet, man. B)

[Fever]

I dont wair the che shirt because i think Che personally would have hated the idea. But to answer your question, im an admire che and am a anarchist. So not everyone here is a commie. There are also a few cappies on the board. They lurk about.

[Organic Revolution]

th cappies are here to annoy us i think :unsure:

[Don't Change Your Name]

I agree with Fever and I'm also an anarchist. There are many capitalists who like Che's ideals but not leftist politics.

[Rote Zora]

Originally posted by [email protected] 28 2003, 04:31 PM
You can find Che shrts, pants and jackets for about $US300+ in Mexico, neither campesinos or Cubans can buy them....
I asked a girl in high school about her Che shirt and she said "Yeah the guy from Rage against the machine" phhh.....
Funny,this happened to me aswell in a train last year.
The guy wearing a t-shirt with Che on it,told me "This is the singer of Rage against the machine"
No comment !

[the SovieT]

like i was at house and then i say this thread and i was like "whoa"!

[Felicia]

Originally posted by the [email protected] 10 2003, 11:34 AM
like i was at house and then i say this thread and i was like "whoa"!
WHOA!!!! :o

Me too eh!!

I think it's the dumbest thing for people to wear the image of che and have to clue whohe was and what he was about. It makes me sick. I feel like slapping poeple when they wear his image, they obviously don't know him and his ideals well enough to know that he was anti-capitalist.... and you don't need to do a lot of digging to figure that one out

lazy schmucks :angry:

[Saint-Just]

A friend of mine had a t-shirt with his image on and had no idea he was a real person or what a 'communist' was or actually what politics was about or that there were poor people in the world, she thought everyone was middle-class, although she had never heard the term middle-class.

[American Kid]

Personally, as the token "Apolitical New Englander" here at Che-lives.com, I feel safe and protected (read into that what you will) in saying that I am not necessarily what you would call a "commited communist."

Amongst the throng of labels I've been branded with here are: liberal (which I don't like), social democrat (which I like more but is difficult to explain to my friends), ect., ect.

I am not a communist. I'm incubating at the moment, politically. I've spent the last year and a half experimenting intellectually and reading in-depth into the various left-wing ideaologies (and right-wing).

I was raised way too catholic to commit 100% to "communism" as it's atheistic and, basically, how do I explain that to my grandmother? I think I'm more of a socialist in the making. Seriously. (also, ideaolgically, I just don't buy the argument that religion is a malicious contributing factor to class inequality; one of the only things I've read in Marxism I wholeheartedly disagree with as faith in God or whatever, to me, seems to transcend the class-lines) (I'm agnostic, btw).

bottom line is this: I admire Dr. Ernesto "Che" Guevara. He was a man of admirable principle and dedicated conviction. He lived and died doing something (everything he could) in the name of what he believed in. He was the head of Cuba's bank but refused the low-4-figure salary (deferring, instead, to his 250$-dollar-a-month Commandante salary). He volunteered for 18 hours a day, cutting sugar cane, for no monetary incentive, on his fucking days off. He drove a shitty little car to work and made his underlings return fancy-ass jaguars siezed in the post-Batista chaos. He was a family man and a doctor and a profoundly influential historical figure. As Christopher Hitchens said about Marx, Che was a "necessary man."

I believe and subscribe 100% to his writings on how doctors should practice socialist-medicine.

I'm not a communist. But yeah, I sport my Che-shirt once or twice a week.

Gasp.
-American Kid

[Felicia]

AK, you're not a communist at all!!! :o

You're a CANADIAN!!!! :o :o :o :o :o

Looks like you have more of that PEI blood than you may have thought....... yay for me ;) :P :lol:

But really, it's cool that your grandparents are islanders :)

Before you know it, I'll have you quoting Trudeau and eating poutine, just you wait! :)

[Legends]

Although I am new to this site I do find it funny when people say that the support che but wear brand names like nike etc

I would like to know what you people wear??

pls tell me

[Felicia]

yeah, I've got sneakers like that...... but I bought them before my ideals ripened. But I wouldn't buy them at this point in my life.