Are we allowed to love Che? I’m currently recreating his 1952 motorcycle diaries trip on a bike but unsure how hard to play up my links with a violent man. He was only 23 (and free of murder baggage) when he rode South America to be fair. Beautiful poetry by the way!
I think there’s space to admire him, LOVE is too strong a word. He was a fanatic in his politics, but he lived it, and with some care for life. It bums me that he’d dislike me as a yank, as much as I approve him and what he lived for. I dismiss the demonizing in the wake of the Cuban Revolution, there was blood on both sides.
A good biography if you want more is Jon Anderson’s “Che”, which documents his charisma and his fanaticism very well. All in all, I admire the guy. He wouldn’t admire me (petite bourgeois that I am).
Thanks for reading, and have a great trip! Isn’t South America still rife with admirers of Guevara anyway?
Yeah you are right with that to be fair. I do need to read a biography. Bought a 900 page epic in Spanish 7 years ago but haven’t got round to it yet for obvious reasons. There’s not so much Guevara fan clubbing going on. Although certainly in the Argentinian section there were statues and street names abound.
Are we allowed to love Che? I’m currently recreating his 1952 motorcycle diaries trip on a bike but unsure how hard to play up my links with a violent man. He was only 23 (and free of murder baggage) when he rode South America to be fair. Beautiful poetry by the way!
I think there’s space to admire him, LOVE is too strong a word. He was a fanatic in his politics, but he lived it, and with some care for life. It bums me that he’d dislike me as a yank, as much as I approve him and what he lived for. I dismiss the demonizing in the wake of the Cuban Revolution, there was blood on both sides.
A good biography if you want more is Jon Anderson’s “Che”, which documents his charisma and his fanaticism very well. All in all, I admire the guy. He wouldn’t admire me (petite bourgeois that I am).
Thanks for reading, and have a great trip! Isn’t South America still rife with admirers of Guevara anyway?
Yeah you are right with that to be fair. I do need to read a biography. Bought a 900 page epic in Spanish 7 years ago but haven’t got round to it yet for obvious reasons. There’s not so much Guevara fan clubbing going on. Although certainly in the Argentinian section there were statues and street names abound.
"the bread of metaphor" is fantastic