Is this quote true?

[Subversive Pessimist]

"Hatred is an element of struggle; relentless hatred of the enemy that impels us over and beyond the natural limitations of man and transforms us into effective, violent, selective, and cold killing machines. Our soldiers must be thus.; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy."


Do you know if this quote is true or not? It is supposed to be said by Guevara.

[Wiesty]

dont know, i heard something along those lines in one of his speech videos
it was like,
"for it is the very essecne ????????????????? that turns man into ruthless killing machines

[h&s]

I wouldn't be surprised if it was. It does sound like something he would have said, and does sound strangely familiar to me.

[bolshevik butcher]

it's from Che Guevara: guerilla warfare

[Subversive Pessimist]

If that's true, then why did he say:

“A true revolutionary is motivated by great feelings of love”? Sounds like hypocricy.

[BuyOurEverything]

It's not hypocritical at all. First, one has to keep in mind that we are analyzing quotes made by Che over his entire life span, not in a single speach. If you take a quote out of, say, one his his diaries in the early parts of the Cuban revolution and a quote out of one of his speaches while he was part of the government in Cuba, post revolution, they're going to have different connotations and a vastly different mood given the difference of the environment and context they were conceived in. The important thing is are they actually contradictory or do they merely appear to reflect different attitudes. In the case of these two, it is obviously the latter. It is correct in saying that a true revolutionary is guided by love. That is the ultimate goal and should be the underlying reason for the revolution: love of the people. In a revolutionary context, however, hate is an integral part of the struggle. Hate of oppression and of the oppressor is neccessary if you're planning on making a serious attempt at change. It adds focus and direction to the struggle. Love and hate are not mutually exclusive, they are both integral parts of the human condition.

[Subversive Pessimist]

Thank you. Great answer. :)

[tequila]

Its true he said that and that True revelutionaries are motivated by great feelings of love. To fight a war you have to love the people and country you are fighting for and hate the people that are opressing those people and that country :ph34r:

[Agent provocateur]

You guys don't ever read, do you? That quote is from Che's Message to the Tricontinental

15th paragraph from the end. The paragraph states:

The beginnings will not be easy; they shall be extremely difficult. All the oligarchies' powers of repression, all their capacity for brutality and demagoguery will be placed at the service of their cause. Our mission, in the first hour, shall be to survive; later, we shall follow the perennial example of the guerrilla, carrying out armed propaganda (in the Vietnamese sense, that is, the bullets of propaganda, of the battles won or lost -- but fought -- against the enemy). The great lesson of the invincibility of the guerrillas taking root in the dispossessed masses. The galvanizing of the national spirit, the preparation for harder tasks, for resisting even more violent repressions. Hatred as an element of the struggle; a relentless hatred of the enemy, impelling us over and beyond the natural limitations that man is heir to and transforming him into an effective, violent, selective and cold killing machine. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy.

http://www.sozialistische-klassiker.org/Che/Chee05.html