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Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude
You missed my point entirely, and appear indifferent to the conditions, and oppressive, corrupt, and murderous regimes, which Che and other revolutionaries like him sought to, and continue to, seek to overthrow.
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that's absolute bullshit. you can't rally people together without a cause to fight. "corruption" Are you kidding me? do you think that Cuba in 1957 or whenever was more corrupt than 1/2 the first and second world nations of 2009?. You've romanticized this idea and take it completely out of context.
You can't simultaneously "abhor" the murder of innocents, the terrorist tactics, the firing squads, the murder of women and children and at the same time say "well, he was well intentioned because he just wanted to help the common man" - anyone can see the obvious contradiction there.
It's very simple. You're poor. You're angry. For whatever reason. You have trained your bitterness on those in power. You have convinced yourself of your righteousness and that of your beliefs and You are ready to "fight".
Whats next?
Well... you need a concept. Something that people can get on board with. And lets take a page straight from "Guerrilla Warfare 101",... you need a concept that undermines the power of the government and at the same time is one that the common person can get behind. So AS WITH ALL REVOLUTIONARIES... you are left with only one realistic avenue. You go on and on about how corrupt, incompetent and dangerous the government is, how little they care about people and how the common man needs a champion and your position yourself as that man. If you're educated.. you start writing. You write a manifesto. You write Mein Kampf. You write The State and Revolution. You write The Analysis of Classes in Chinese Society. If you can't write... then you use some of the more famous writings of other socialists and communists and revolutionaries to validate your cause and legitimize the "struggle" against oppression.
Then... you get power. You consolidate power. You eliminate anyone who opposes you - er... excuse me, they are now referred to as "enemies of the state" and you start building your network of secret police, private villas and Swiss bank accounts.
Revolutions for independence against a foreign occupier are one thing.
Revolutions against your own government, conducted at the expense of people.. your own citizens, murdering, raping, torturing and killing men women and children "for the good of the common man" is quite another and totally indefensible. It is a power play and nothing more... and its all executed against a simple formula, discussed above, time and time again.