Lenin talked about this phenomenon:
Originally posted by State and Revolution+--> (State and Revolution) During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the "consolation" of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it. [/b]
Originally posted by razboz+--> (razboz) But nontheless, he has been abstracted from his revolutionairy ideas. People often dont stop and think why he was fighting, all they know or want to know, is that he was fighting and a what great hero he was [/b]
All that is true, but othervise many wouldn't know who he was at all, right? I think that the capitalists are speeding up the destruction of class society in this, as in many other aspects, with their greed. Their very system is self-destructing.
Even though they make shitloads of money with Che's image, if only one of a hundred young people purchazing one of the t-shirts does some research
on him and becomes a revolutionary, the capitalists have put another nail in their own coffin! :)
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how handsome he was and so on
He was, wasn't he! ;)
razboz
and yes mikhail gorbachev probably was counter-revolutionairy, but it doesnt mean what he said about Stalin was all wrong....
Guess not, but he used it to propagate for capitalism as we realise when we see him
in Pizza-Hut commercials.
But as many of the posters on this thread have agreed, Stalins case has nothing to do with Ches. We shouldn't be fighting the idolizing of him in my opinion.