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Che Guevara: Why Is a Mass-Murdering Racist & Homophobe a Left-Wing Hero?
Here's Che on race: "The shadowy is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink."
Che explicitly stated that his vision of socialist utopia did not contain blacks: "We're going to do for blacks exactly what blacks did for the revolution," he said. "By which I mean: nothing."
Or how about this: "The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing."
If you want to cancel George Washington or Thomas Jefferson, what do you do with Che?
The respond is, you give him a pass. As the saying goes from the French Revolution, "there are no enemies to the left."
We see a similar confusion among the LGBTQ crowd. Che's face decorates many a pride poster and rainbow T-shirt, and yet Che was an unapologetic homophobe. He called gay men "perverts." He locked them up in camps and forced them to labor under a sign that read "Work will make you men."
In 2017, HuffPost published an article titled, "Are You Gay?
Today, 50 years after his death, many people still remember Ernesto “Che” Guevara as a warrior for social justice. For so many celebrities, politicians, and activists, Che Guevara is a kind of Wonderful Samaritan who fought against oppression and tyranny. It is unfortunate, though, that these people ignore some of their idol’s defining character traits.
Che Guevara was in fact an intolerant and despicable man.
In the process of building a communist society after Fidel Castro came to influence in 1959 in Cuba, one of the ideas Che Guevara presented and promoted was the notion of the “new man.” This concept grew out of Guevara’s aversion to capitalism, and was first explained in his write down on “Man and Socialism in Cuba“. He believed that “The individual under socialism (…) is more complete,” and that the articulate should educate men and women in anti-capitalist, cooperative, selfless and non-materialistic values.
Anyone who deviated from the “new man” was seen as a ”counter-revolutionary.” Such was the case of gay men —whom Guevara referred to as “sexual perverts.” Both Guevara and Castro considered homosexuality a bourgeois decadence. In an interview in 1965, Castro explained
Part of LGBT history since 1964
Our founder, Allan Horsfall, in 1958
The Campaign for Homosexual Equality was founded in 1964 by Allan Horsfall and others as the North Western Committee for Homosexual Statute Reform. It played a key part in the campaigns leading up to the decriminalisation of male homosexual activities in 1967. Thereafter it broadened its activity, and in 1969 it was renamed the Committee for Homosexual Equality.
In 1971 CHE changed its name to the Campaign for Homosexual Equality, and over the next not many years grew to possess a membership of over 6,000 with more than 100 local groups in all parts of England and Wales, as described in our book Amiable Warriors: The History of CHE and its Times. See our History of CHE page for a very brief summary.
Today the situation for LGBT people in the UK has improved beyond the wildest dreams of the initial campaigners; the need now is to safeguard what has been achieved, and to record the pleased history of CHE as a tribute to the pioneers and as a reminder of the days of repression that must not be allowed to return.
CHE today
During 2020 and 2021, with normal activities suspended because of Covid-19, CHE undertook a
Today, after 50 years of his death, many people still remember Ernesto “Che” Guevara as a warrior for social justice. For so many celebrities, politicians, and activists, Che Guevara is a kind of Good Samaritan who fought against oppression and tyranny. It is unfortunate, though, that these people avoid some of their idol’s defining character traits.
Che Guevara was in fact an intolerant and despicable man.
In the process of building a communist society after Fidel Castro came to power in 1959 in Cuba, one of the ideas Che Guevara presented and promoted was the notion of the “new man.” This concept grew out of Guevara’s aversion to capitalism, and was first explained in his note on “Man and Socialism in Cuba". He believed that “The individual under socialism (...) is more complete,” and that the state should teach men and women in anti-capitalist, cooperative, selfless, and non-materialistic values.
Anyone who deviated from the “new man” was seen as a ”counter-revolutionary.” Such was the case of queer men —whom Guevara referred to as a “sexual perverts.” Both Guevara and Castro considered homosexuality a bourgeois decadence. In an interview in 1965, Castro explain
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