Happy birthday Che Guevara, the Marxist icon par excellence! Starting as a humanitarian doctor, forged by the catastrophic consequences of capitalism in Latin America, and immortalized in the communist struggle – for Che Guevara, words and deeds were the same. 🧵
In 1953, bidding farewell to his parents, Guevara started with his legendary motorcycle trip across Latin America. He first encountered his future comrade-in-arms in Mexico, the young Fidel Castro, preparing for the guerrilla struggle against Batista's dictatorship in Cuba.
Years of guerrilla warfare followed, during which Che rose to become the comandante of the Cuban revolutionaries, whose victory catapulted him onto the world stage. However, he threw himself again into the guerrilla fight, first in Congo and then in Bolivia.
When the CIA and the Bolivian army captured Guevara after a fierce battle on October 8, 1967, his captors, fearing his ability to transform the court proceedings into a powerful platform, executed him on the spot. The murder made him immortal.
The continuing interest in the thought and work of Guevara, and the continuing enthusiasm for his struggle, stems from the same consciousness as Che's fight, the victory over the miserable system that is capitalism and the liberation of humanity.
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