An Open and Enlightened Mind

[Joyce1957]

I have just completed reading "A Revolutionary Life" by Jon Anderson. It is an incredibly researched and wonderfully real biography of Ernesto Guevara. After all my years of American schooling, particularly regarding economics, I was always taught to believe that Communism was BAD, the great threat, the great uniter of all imperial nations. After reading this biography and several of Che's works, I have come to realize that a revolution is certainly necessary here in the US. I know I may sound naive, so please bear with me, I'm new at this. After President Bush's "re-election", I, along with many of my fellow countrymen, have voiced a loss of "hope" here. Reading Che's works caused me to look at how truly insidious my own government is in repressing and supressing not only other nations, but it's very own. I would love to hear back from you all and to continue in my "education". Thanks.

[Vallegrande]

...when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce [the people] under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security." --Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence, 1776. ME 1:29, Papers 1:429

"The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exclusions and incapacitations are removed." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Religion, 1776. Papers 1:548

[leftist resistance]

Good that you've realised that.

I was once like you,thought that communism is bad,complete failure.But instead of submissing to this national brainwash,i became interested in the idea of equality brought by communism.

Keep on reading..and find more enlightenment :D