@@lumpenproletarier9584 Yeah tell me about it, Che, the man who ran onto a burning freighter that had exploded *twice* because he was a doctor and felt a duty to save human lives is exactly Hitler. wHaT a tOTaL nAZi lmao
@@midashaltzern Honestly, I think this is 100 percent true. There are plenty of comedy series I liked, but they were always deeper on some level even if they were stupid most of the time (like Scrubs)
Id say Che must have known the symbol he was, considering his last words; "I know you are here to kill me. Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man"
The balls of steel you must have when your last words tell your captor to shoot you because you are just one person part of a higher cause they couldn't kill. Super badass.
Does everyone think Cuba under Batista was fucking awesome or something? Like even if Che and Fidel were awful, it's kind of weird to never bring up the fact that the guy in power before them was guilty of pretty much everything they've been accused of.
In the US, Most people probably don’t even know who Batista was. What they think is Castro = Communist = Bad. People don’t know about the horrible things our government has done and supported. If you tell them, they mostly either don’t believe you, or rationalize it in some way.
What I love the most about the right wing narrative in Cuba is that, in their mind, 22 men managed to conquer an entire country and Cuba was all kittens and lollypops before evil Che and Castro took over. For this small of a force to take on an entire government, its people HAVE to be lining up to join the cause. Which either mean the people hate the government with a passion, that the invaders have a good deal for them, or both.
Well said. Cuba and the Cuban people overthrew Batista. Ché was just the spark that started the fire. Along with Fidel and the other heros on the granma. But really, it was the peasant class and Cuba as a whole freeing themselves.
@@leonardopatrizio and how the CIA thought that a handful of US trained dissidents would be enough to overthrow the socialist government 'cos they were convinced that the people would join them to end evil socialism 😂😂 US "intelligence"
Don't forget that their belief that "22 men managed to conquer an entire country" was probably used as an excuse to justify McCarthyism---that they have to arrest every last commie because all it takes is 22.
In Egypt when he died the most prominent anti-regime singer El-Sheikh Imam and the poet Ahmed Fouad Negm made a song mourning him literally called جيفارا مات Guevara is Dead. He was a symbol during our revolution in 2011
I was at a market and this Syrian man was selling leather jackets. I was wearing a Che Guevara pin on my lapel and he asked me if I would sell it to him. I asked him why he wanted it and he said that in his country they saw him as a symbol of hope. I gave it to him and he was so grateful, he gave me a leather jacket. I said it was too much, but he said that he thought it was a fair trade.
I don't see the harm in it, frankly. A lot of lefties get hung up on the hypocrisy without grounding their disgust in the reality of where literally all of our clothes come from. You can buy a sweatshop shirt with or without Che's face on it - but you're not buying a new shirt with clean morality. And frankly, the idea of moral purity through consumption choices is some liberal BS anyway.
Fidel Castro said it best when Guevara's remains were returned to Cuba in 1997. “Why did they think that by killing him, he would cease to exist as a fighter? Today he is in every place, wherever there is a just cause to defend. His unerasable mark is now in history and his luminous gaze of a prophet has become a symbol for all the poor of this world.”
"Communism, ladies and gentlemen- I say it without flinching- Communism in Eastern Europe, Russia, China, Mongolia, North Korea and Cuba brought land reform and human services, a dramatic bettering of the living conditions of *hundreds of millions of people* on a scale never before or never since witnessed in human history, and that's something to appreciate! Communism transformed desperately-poor countries into societies in which everyone had adequate food, shelter, medical care, and education, and some of us who come from poor families who carry around the hidden injuries of class are very impressed, are very, very impressed by these achievements and are not willing to dismiss them as 'economistic'! To say that socialism doesn't work is to overlook the fact that it *did work*, and it worked for hundreds of millions of people!" -Michael Parenti
Exactly. Many young people in Slovakia nowadays trash the communist system and its supposed authoritarianism, and yet it transformed a half-illiterate exploited agrarian country into an industrialized, educated and conscious populace. Like, they could just ask their grandparents. Time and time again I've heard family stories of how harsh lives in interwar Czechoslovakia and fascist Slovakia were. People working their fields all day every day barely able to get by selling it on the markets, having to carry water from wells a mile away, starving and dying of tuberculosis. Suddenly, the fields of the rich were confiscated, transformed into what we call "družstvá", where the people worked the fields for far less hours a day, getting far higher returns, and relaxing most of the day around the table with their families. Youngsters from poor peasant families became jet pilots, engineers, and professors. Hospitals and high schools were being built in poor, isolated and neglected mountain valleys which had been almost abandoned under the previous system for a "better life" in America (I heard stories about that from my grandpa, but that's another story...). And yet, despite all our industry being dismantled after the fall of communism, granted, some sold to western corporates, despite all those neglected regions becoming destitute once again, despite inequality rising rapidly, these brainwashed useless idiots still praise capitalism as a saviour...
@@matusmotlo3854 I'm from Eastern Germany and while Germany has been a first world country for centuries, we learn so much weird things in our history class. My history book for 12th grade is talking about how the West gave the people in Germany food, money and shelter and the East only gave them a plot of land and no other resources. And that the SED was forced but the West was implementing democracy. I'm like, do you think we're dumb? (Sadly, a lot of people I know don't see anything wrong with our history books) Apparently it's supposed to be a bad thing that the Soviets put Nazis into the camps! What?!
Bro yk 72% of Cubans live below the poverty line “feeding the poor” while the Cuban government spends 500million on hotels alone as the island sits in darkens while they enjoy their blood money in Madrid
That One Day At A Time sitcom looks so bad, oh my God. All the jokes are bad, acting is bad, writing is bad, like, regardless of the politics, it looks like it is just bad comedy and bad TV.
@@Gaby-wi4bx Progressive doesn’t equal good anyway. As someone who falls into one of those categories, we deserve good entertainment. We don’t need consolation prizes.
@@heidimelcarek3677 aim to educate yourself and try to go to college like Che did and pursue a career in politics although this path is hard it is extremely important
It’s so disheartening how all my life, I’ve been lied to and told that this revolutionary figure was somehow a genocidal maniac, and it’s taken me almost 20 years to actually be educated otherwise.
@@heidimelcarek3677 You can get involved in your local orgs or even start your own. I recently started my own mutual aid org and with luck and work I hope to make it bigger and provide mutual aid and advance the revolutionary struggle. 💖
If you think about it, Che was THE example of positive masculinity. Instead of relying on toxicity and being cold, he was open with his feelings, friendly, and compassionate. The comparison to Jesus is actually not far off. He was what Christians describe Jesus to have been like.
I don't think that's entirely accurate. His work within Angola allienated much the peasantry because of his over relliance on displays of force rather than displayed of compassion like earlier in his life. Also his diaries evidence that he very much was man's man of his time. The good qualities he does have tho are still good, and like all human beings, he's complex.
"He wasn't even Cuban!" Wow, nice to see from the show staring a minority Americans often claim aren't "really American." If you come from another country and effect change there, that's EVIL.
“The division of America into unstable and illusionary nations is completely fictional, we constitute a single mestizo race, which from Mexico to the Magellan straits bears notable ethnographical similarities, and so, in an attempt to rid myself of the weight of small-minded provincialism, I propose a toast to Peru and to a United Latin America.”
@@elmascapo6588 oh my fucking god its you again. more lies about che. i remember you when i crushed you in a socialism debate looks like your dumbass made it here.
Born rich, went on a Journey, underwent internal change, joined a band of Warriors, overthrown an Evil dictator in a distant land, became a feared rebelion Figher, and died in battle. This story seems familiar...
Arround 10 ir 12 years ago a Cuban agronomist came to my country to colaborate in a sustainable agronomy project wich my dad was part of. He told me that the first thing this man did out of the plane was to kiss the ground of the country el Che was born
a fun fact is that the ranking listing him as the 37th most influential Latin American was made by one of the most conservative newspapers in Argentina, El Che is so revered that even his most fervent haters have to admit how incredibly influential he is
Right wing cuban exiles in America know exactly what side they're on lmao. If there was socialism in Zimbabwe or malaysia or Serbia, it doesn't even matter, they're the former bourgeoisie of a country, they're right wingers, and they're against socialism in any country
@Shlomo PilpulStein What I learned: If you are a symbol of resistance, loved by many, and they make statues of you and name things after you, well then you MUST be a great, decent man. Now, let's all respect those Confederate heroes shall we?
'The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.' 'Those who kill their own children and discriminate daily against them because of the color of their skin; those who let the murderers of blacks remain free, protecting them, and furthermore punishing the black population because they demand their legitimate rights as free men - how can those who do this consider themselves guardians of freedom?' 'If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine''. 'I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.' 'The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation.' 'Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace.' Ernesto Che Guevara Hasta la victoria siempre! Viva El Che - Guerrillero Heroico!! Patria o muerte!!!❤✊
Che did not beg for sparing his life and on capture, much less before his execution. I recommend the testimony of one of Che's death witnesses - Mario Huerta Lorenzetti and Julia Cortez, who was a teacher at the school in La Higuera. And in the matter of "killing only a man" ... Mario Teran felt stress when he was about to execute - Guevara was known all over the world already during his lifetime, a symbol of the revolution. Che made him realize that he was only a mortal human after all, and not 'Christ Guerrillero'. Teran now had to ask him what he believed. To which he replied, 'I believe in the immortality of the revolution'.
@@sakshambishalgurung8350 The government's hatred of Che Guevara is beyond measure. They are not satisfied with killing a man, because it is largely thanks to this that his cult was born. By force, Guevara is made not only a homophobic murderer, rapist and also a coward. But facts always prevail against empty propaganda.
I would recommend Che: A Revolutionary Life to anyone interested. It's quite long, but after reading it I was truly inspired by the example he had left in life.
I recommend you to: 1. Jorge Castañeda 'Compañero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara' 2. Jean Cormier 'Che Guevara' 3. Paco Ignacio Taibo II 'Guevara, also known as Che' 4. Benjamin Forcan 'El Che y la teologia de la liberacion' 5. Ryszard Kapuściński 'Christ with a rifle on his shoulder' 6. Artur Domosławski 'Latin American fever' 7. Ryszard Grzegorz Kania 'Che - missionary of the revolution'
@@sethk5396 folks like that never watch the video first, either that or they skim through it. They only want to go, "NO THATS NOT TRUE, MY IDEOLOGICAL BELIEFS ARE THE ONLY RIGHT ONES. ANYTHING THAT CHALLENGES MY WORLDVIEW IS JUST LIES OR MISUNDERSTANDINGS"
Smart woman who can change her mind with just one video. Now if you can show the terrible things that he did and the mass murdering family that he helped install and rule over Cuba, she might change her mind again.
Ah yes intelligent people decide to change their beliefs off 1 biased video. No need to look into the counter argument right? this guy has everything fit so nice in a package so I don't have to use my brain!
@@Classical19821 What’s the counter argument? A bunch of bullshit claims or half-truths that were already debunked decades ago? If you want us to listen to the “other side of the argument” then maybe, *just maybe* , try to come up with a coherent argument that isn’t entirely based on lies and half-truths! Crazy right???
Africans from all over the continent cherish Che Guevara and we recognize the huge impact he had on revolutions all over the continent. Che was truly an inspiration on a global scale.
@@godofwar4276 All of those insults are pure projection. Good luck licking the boots of your favorite corporate master, maybe they'll give you some extra bonuses for being an obedient worker. 🤭
NESLON MANDELA: There is still the reality that one persons terrorist is another persons freedom fighter. So what The US did with cuba,iraq, afghanistan and other countries ,killed millions of innocent peoples is the highest terrorism of the century.
Motherland or death..We have been through a war in 1971. USA and even china took pakistani side. While my poor county was fighting alone then India and and USSR came to help. And now US is trying to get our land to make their military base. We shade blood in 1971, we still can do it for the sake of our land.
Damn, honestly Che's story really is like a modern Jesus. No wonder the US treats his image like the Roman Empire did with Jesus and early Christians. He shall be remembered by oppressed peoples forever! ☭☭☭
No I laugh as most these idiots don't know who che was or deny what he did. He was a monster killed women and children. Denies he is a racist or that he is homophobic. It's funny to watch them try to defend his actions.
Fun fact: For some reason Big Boss was something like "che" Guevara in the metal gear solid lore, in peace walker he is depicted by both sides the muricans and the soviets as if he was a guerrilla trainer and a fantastic medic, he even help the sandinista revolution XD Venceremos!
Kojima loves history, and Big Boss being a revolutionary in Latin America was straight up Che Guevara fanfiction. Big Boss is entirely modeled to look like Che aside from the eyepatch and bandana so it's apt to say that Kojima really admired El Che and that's pretty cool to me.
I literally just put on a Che shirt (printed by comrades a long ago) for an online communist talk event. Oh my. Keep up the great work, your videos are amazing!
The story of Che reminds me of that of Garibaldi. As an Italian i know something about what he did in Italy and France but almost nothing of what he did in Latin America. Have you ever considered doing a video about him?
Honestly Che Guevara is one of the most selfless people I've ever heard of. I didn't know this until recently. I admire his resilience. His legacy will not die in vain. The truth shall rise.
i always love when anti socialists use the homophobe card against a socialist who was born almost 100 years ago and that died in 1967, like being homophobic was the norm. Like sweden only removed the illness tag attached to homosexuality in 1975
😂😂😂 I use facts and what he wrote and did. He put 150k gays in camps. His actions speaks louder then your words and his. You ever think about researching then screeching talking points? I know this because I research. Che was a monster and anyone who praises him or defends him are either misguided or just as bad as he was.
That line Che wrote about his older self dying really resonates with me. After seeing so much awful shit its very difficult not to be changed and inevitably radicalized.
The only Che shirt I have is a "Viva La evolution" with Che as a chimp, it's simultaneously kinda funny and also a great shame. Old mate definitely deserves more than a deformed rememberance as a pop culture hieroglyph, thanks for the foundational video my human being!
Good job on the informative video. It's gonna come in handy if I ever need to debunk anti-Che propaganda. It's also coming in handy now since I'm running a Doctor Who tabletop RPG game where the party will find themselves caught up in the Cuban Revolution and have to save Che Guevara from an alien in order to preserve history and prevent the Cuba Revolution from failing.
I read somewhere that the reason why Che wanted to start a revolution in Bolivia was because it was a land-locked country that bordered five other countries, each with a violent political history. If he were to help transform Bolivia into another Cuba, then revolutions (a la the Domino Effect) would likely spread through out Latin America. Did Che ever really say or write that?
@@kimobrien. The actions of US backed dictators, death sqauds, etc. are far worse than the most extreme excesses of Stalin. Your comment is largely correct but I wish communists wouldn't concede to anti-communist framing about the USSR in arguments with anti-communists. It's like 'never tell anyone outside the family what you're thinking.'
We need more people like El Che, specially as Capitalism worldwide is flirting with the idea of fascism to keep it's stranglehold on the people as it collapses around us. Dying for the good cause of opposing oppression and tyrants is good enough of a purpose to me, as I never had notions to achieve much in Capitalist America. I refuse to partake in this system that has taken much from those that have very little I just can't ignore it.
The thing that get's me really angry is how people don't see how great he was, how an amazing example for humanity he was. In Brasil a lot of this bullshit is being spread and this kind of video is very important in this dark times. Te saludo amigo por su buenissimo trabajo ! Um grande abraço do Brasil ! Venceremos ! (PS: do you know that Che was awarded the Cruzeiro do Sul medal in Brasil ? It's a crazy history, you should look up)
The worst part of attacks lik this is that there are actual criticisisms that can be made and discusions that can be had like the fact that he comited and created instructions for terrorism (even if I personally think that was justified in those cases) but instead reactionaries rather talk about vague and false bad stuff because they dont care about discusion or morals but oilbaron money
Anyone who has actually read the man's own words and looked into his life know he is far from evil. He was dedicated to helping liberate people. You don't have to be a communist to appreciate his sacrifice and integrity.
The fact that you think people dont know EVERYTHING about him because them paint his mural on a wall,its because of what they know he did,is the reason they paint his image.ESPECAILLY in ireland.
Che was one of the most greatests heroes in Human history,thanks for reminding those ignorant yankees of that fact,the demonization of him by the wealthy elites scum is disgusting
Personally, NO ONE in history was a perfect human being in any way. NO ONE! As for Ernesto Che Guevara, he may have been nearly somewhat a negative historical figure to his critics, detractors, and enemies, for which I am NONE of them, I rather deal with some of his positive aspects in being a revolutionary and statesman. After all, IF Che was a bad person, then so were Henry Kissinger, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Augusto Pinochet of Chile, and other so-called "sacred cows" of history!
I had no idea that younger people hated Che Guevara!😩😮I was a freshman in college in 1970 and every other person had a Che Lives!!with the face of victory over tyranny, he was the perfect symbol of a new world .
The fact that everyone seems to assume Che shirts have ever been "trending" among people who haven't at least read something about the history of Cuba is amusing to me. No one wearing the shirt thinks he's just "a guy with a nice beard."
Dicen que me arrastrarán por sobre rocas Cuando la revolución se venga abajo Que machacarán mis manos y mi boca Que me arrancarán los ojos y el badajo Será que la necedad parió conmigo La necedad de lo que hoy resulta necio La necedad de asumir al enemigo La necedad de vivir sin tener precio Yo no sé lo que es el destino Caminando fui lo que fui Allá Dios que será divino Yo me muero como viví Yo me muero como viví Yo me muero como viví
The only thing the "comedy" got right is that che wasnt from cuba
And that he had a great hat and beard
"comedy" is doing a lot of work in that sentence
@@MakNCheese88 OP should've added quotations as you did 😁👍
@@francischimenti1374 on it
Not gonna lie, that clip from that sitcom made me cringe a little
When they compared him to Hitler I got pissed, what a disgusting relativization of the Nazi dictatorship.
@@lumpenproletarier9584 Yeah tell me about it, Che, the man who ran onto a burning freighter that had exploded *twice* because he was a doctor and felt a duty to save human lives is exactly Hitler. wHaT a tOTaL nAZi lmao
Just a little? It fucking tore my cringe muscle
Sitcoms exist to turn people into zombie sheep.
@@midashaltzern Honestly, I think this is 100 percent true. There are plenty of comedy series I liked, but they were always deeper on some level even if they were stupid most of the time (like Scrubs)
Are you telling me that a US media conglomerate provided a distorted picture of a socialist hero? I am shocked, SHOCKED I tell you!
😂😂
Id say Che must have known the symbol he was, considering his last words; "I know you are here to kill me. Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man"
The Chad Revolutionary Che vs. The Virgin Capitalist Dictator
The balls of steel you must have when your last words tell your captor to shoot you because you are just one person part of a higher cause they couldn't kill. Super badass.
The fact that he became this big of a symbol was proof that he was right. He became a Martyr.
I got chills reading that. Someone should make a movie about him
@@emery7554 steven soderbergh's "che" is pretty good from what i remember
Does everyone think Cuba under Batista was fucking awesome or something? Like even if Che and Fidel were awful, it's kind of weird to never bring up the fact that the guy in power before them was guilty of pretty much everything they've been accused of.
lol people will literally rehabilitate Tsar Nicholas just to be anticommunist, never have any standards for these people
Thats why I love the start of the film Seven Psychopaths.
They actually do. I hade once a online discussion and there are really people out there thinking, the Baptista regime was heaven...
In the US, Most people probably don’t even know who Batista was. What they think is Castro = Communist = Bad. People don’t know about the horrible things our government has done and supported. If you tell them, they mostly either don’t believe you, or rationalize it in some way.
@@torbenfischer2182 because they were capitalists
"B-but... he was racist and homophobic and killed people who didn't agree with him!"
"Uh, really? Then shouldn't you guys love him?"
Don't even dream in telling white folks the truth!
Lmao this is such a good rebuttal actually
@@fakenameu_u1859 Dude, why would you say that? I know a lot of white folks (from Europe) who like and admire Che. He's actually quite popular here.
@@markusk9080 i'm just kidding man, i know that. I'm talking more of WASP kind of people
conservatives did the same at his time and he was also a civil rights activist 😎😎😎😎
What I love the most about the right wing narrative in Cuba is that, in their mind, 22 men managed to conquer an entire country and Cuba was all kittens and lollypops before evil Che and Castro took over.
For this small of a force to take on an entire government, its people HAVE to be lining up to join the cause. Which either mean the people hate the government with a passion, that the invaders have a good deal for them, or both.
Well said. Cuba and the Cuban people overthrew Batista. Ché was just the spark that started the fire. Along with Fidel and the other heros on the granma. But really, it was the peasant class and Cuba as a whole freeing themselves.
@@leonardopatrizio and how the CIA thought that a handful of US trained dissidents would be enough to overthrow the socialist government 'cos they were convinced that the people would join them to end evil socialism 😂😂 US "intelligence"
Don't forget that their belief that "22 men managed to conquer an entire country" was probably used as an excuse to justify McCarthyism---that they have to arrest every last commie because all it takes is 22.
In Egypt when he died the most prominent anti-regime singer El-Sheikh Imam and the poet Ahmed Fouad Negm made a song mourning him literally called جيفارا مات Guevara is Dead. He was a symbol during our revolution in 2011
Che will always be hero in the arab world greetings from 🇰🇼 🇨🇺
سلام عليكم. عندي بس سؤال صريح. هل أكو علاقة بين الكويت و Che؟
@@mortanme7375 I haven't heard it of that, maybe he mistook it for the Palestine flag, to which Guevara was a well known supporter?
@@osamaattallah6956 oh that makes sense. Thank you
@@mortanme7375 لا الكويت حكم ملكي دكتاتوري متشدد حاله حال الدول العربيه بس che معروف بين الشعب
@@osamaattallah6956 no I’m from Kuwait and che is popular here
I was at a market and this Syrian man was selling leather jackets. I was wearing a Che Guevara pin on my lapel and he asked me if I would sell it to him. I asked him why he wanted it and he said that in his country they saw him as a symbol of hope. I gave it to him and he was so grateful, he gave me a leather jacket. I said it was too much, but he said that he thought it was a fair trade.
that's really beautiful, I'm from Argentina and we all feel great pride over what is one of our most recognizable figures.
that’s fucking sick dude
@@alabama4625Abajo Che fusilaba jente sin juicio.
@@donald8354 cry gusano
Was he Kurdish?
His face does look dope on a shirt tho
I don't see the harm in it, frankly. A lot of lefties get hung up on the hypocrisy without grounding their disgust in the reality of where literally all of our clothes come from. You can buy a sweatshop shirt with or without Che's face on it - but you're not buying a new shirt with clean morality. And frankly, the idea of moral purity through consumption choices is some liberal BS anyway.
also fun fact the guy wearing the Che Shirt is also a landlord portrayed in 100% positive way
Fidel Castro said it best when Guevara's remains were returned to Cuba in 1997.
“Why did they think that by killing him, he would cease to exist as a fighter? Today he is in every place, wherever there is a just cause to defend. His unerasable mark is now in history and his luminous gaze of a prophet has become a symbol for all the poor of this world.”
The dictator praised the moron who helped him get the dictatorship? Say it ain't so!
To be fair, Che was his bud. Of course he talks good, would you want him to talk trash about about his dead ally
@@wildramenluchadorproductio3338 To be even fairer, Fidel Castro was one hundred per cent right about what he said
"Communism, ladies and gentlemen- I say it without flinching- Communism in Eastern Europe, Russia, China, Mongolia, North Korea and Cuba brought land reform and human services, a dramatic bettering of the living conditions of *hundreds of millions of people* on a scale never before or never since witnessed in human history, and that's something to appreciate! Communism transformed desperately-poor countries into societies in which everyone had adequate food, shelter, medical care, and education, and some of us who come from poor families who carry around the hidden injuries of class are very impressed, are very, very impressed by these achievements and are not willing to dismiss them as 'economistic'! To say that socialism doesn't work is to overlook the fact that it *did work*, and it worked for hundreds of millions of people!"
-Michael Parenti
Well, the dead in the mass graves paid the price for that.
@@NateB death of bourgeois and people who killed civilian should not be count as death
@@NateB -- JUST BAD PEOPLE. | Only bad people would oppose equality. Go figure out why the villains had to go meet Jesus.
Exactly. Many young people in Slovakia nowadays trash the communist system and its supposed authoritarianism, and yet it transformed a half-illiterate exploited agrarian country into an industrialized, educated and conscious populace. Like, they could just ask their grandparents. Time and time again I've heard family stories of how harsh lives in interwar Czechoslovakia and fascist Slovakia were. People working their fields all day every day barely able to get by selling it on the markets, having to carry water from wells a mile away, starving and dying of tuberculosis. Suddenly, the fields of the rich were confiscated, transformed into what we call "družstvá", where the people worked the fields for far less hours a day, getting far higher returns, and relaxing most of the day around the table with their families. Youngsters from poor peasant families became jet pilots, engineers, and professors. Hospitals and high schools were being built in poor, isolated and neglected mountain valleys which had been almost abandoned under the previous system for a "better life" in America (I heard stories about that from my grandpa, but that's another story...). And yet, despite all our industry being dismantled after the fall of communism, granted, some sold to western corporates, despite all those neglected regions becoming destitute once again, despite inequality rising rapidly, these brainwashed useless idiots still praise capitalism as a saviour...
@@matusmotlo3854 I'm from Eastern Germany and while Germany has been a first world country for centuries, we learn so much weird things in our history class. My history book for 12th grade is talking about how the West gave the people in Germany food, money and shelter and the East only gave them a plot of land and no other resources. And that the SED was forced but the West was implementing democracy. I'm like, do you think we're dumb? (Sadly, a lot of people I know don't see anything wrong with our history books) Apparently it's supposed to be a bad thing that the Soviets put Nazis into the camps! What?!
Florida Cuban: “But!!... I should’ve been born into an oligarch’s family and lived like a king based on the suffering and theft of the Cuban people!!”
@@kagemarushun7378 because Fidel took that shit
lmao I know, life is hard for those Floridian Cubans. They have to live like complete normies over there - tragedy!
Bro yk 72% of Cubans live below the poverty line “feeding the poor” while the Cuban government spends 500million on hotels alone as the island sits in darkens while they enjoy their blood money in Madrid
That One Day At A Time sitcom looks so bad, oh my God. All the jokes are bad, acting is bad, writing is bad, like, regardless of the politics, it looks like it is just bad comedy and bad TV.
You want to hear the worst part? Many many people consider it a super progressive sitcom because It features latinos and gay people I guess
Is it made by the kardashins?
@@Gaby-wi4bx Is it like from the 90s or something?
@@Gaby-wi4bx Progressive doesn’t equal good anyway. As someone who falls into one of those categories, we deserve good entertainment. We don’t need consolation prizes.
That is most sitcoms tbh
“I envy you. You North Americans are very lucky. You are fighting the most important fight of all-you live in the belly of the beast.”
- Che Guevara
@@heidimelcarek3677 aim to educate yourself and try to go to college like Che did and pursue a career in politics although this path is hard it is extremely important
@@heidimelcarek3677 Here's a good video on easy direct action. ua-cam.com/video/a2nuF9IXnkg/v-deo.html
@@ephemera5714 based thought slime
It’s so disheartening how all my life, I’ve been lied to and told that this revolutionary figure was somehow a genocidal maniac, and it’s taken me almost 20 years to actually be educated otherwise.
@@heidimelcarek3677 You can get involved in your local orgs or even start your own. I recently started my own mutual aid org and with luck and work I hope to make it bigger and provide mutual aid and advance the revolutionary struggle. 💖
If you think about it, Che was THE example of positive masculinity. Instead of relying on toxicity and being cold, he was open with his feelings, friendly, and compassionate. The comparison to Jesus is actually not far off. He was what Christians describe Jesus to have been like.
I mean, we saw what Jesus did to the capitalists who set up shop in the temple... the comparison is closer than you might think.
I don't think that's entirely accurate. His work within Angola allienated much the peasantry because of his over relliance on displays of force rather than displayed of compassion like earlier in his life. Also his diaries evidence that he very much was man's man of his time. The good qualities he does have tho are still good, and like all human beings, he's complex.
@@danman1950 yea where did you get Angola from? Che never went there
This is the house of my father you leechs!
Jesus whiping merchants-
Thats why they kill him, religion was just an excuse
I don't think anyone would dispute that Che wasn't a man of his time and not necessarily some that should be idolized
"He wasn't even Cuban!" Wow, nice to see from the show staring a minority Americans often claim aren't "really American." If you come from another country and effect change there, that's EVIL.
“The division of America into unstable and illusionary nations is completely fictional, we constitute a single mestizo race, which from Mexico to the Magellan straits bears notable ethnographical similarities, and so, in an attempt to rid myself of the weight of small-minded provincialism, I propose a toast to Peru and to a United Latin America.”
wtf!!! he felt empathy for people who were oppressed??? OMG STOP PRAISING HITLERITES!!!!!!!
@@elmascapo6588 oh my fucking god its you again. more lies about che. i remember you when i crushed you in a socialism debate looks like your dumbass made it here.
@@elmascapo6588 oh yes when che had sex. yes how horrible
@@elmascapo6588 to you having children is a sin i assume?
Born rich, went on a Journey, underwent internal change, joined a band of Warriors, overthrown an Evil dictator in a distant land, became a feared rebelion Figher, and died in battle.
This story seems familiar...
Who are you referring to?
@@fooricoori439 trump
No actually, who is Sarund9 referring to?
Robin Hood is who he reminds me off
No idea what you're referencing
Arround 10 ir 12 years ago a Cuban agronomist came to my country to colaborate in a sustainable agronomy project wich my dad was part of. He told me that the first thing this man did out of the plane was to kiss the ground of the country el Che was born
a fun fact is that the ranking listing him as the 37th most influential Latin American was made by one of the most conservative newspapers in Argentina, El Che is so revered that even his most fervent haters have to admit how incredibly influential he is
I have never forgotten the postal service drama between Ireland and American Cubans after Ireland simply released a stamp with Che Guevara on it
Irish Postal Service: Haha, get rekt, bourgeoisie
I remember that. I wish I had a stamp.
Right wing cuban exiles in America know exactly what side they're on lmao. If there was socialism in Zimbabwe or malaysia or Serbia, it doesn't even matter, they're the former bourgeoisie of a country, they're right wingers, and they're against socialism in any country
Virgin Gus*nos Vs CHAD IRISH POSTAL SERVICE
My granny managed to get a load of those stamps so I get one via post on my birthday every year lol 🥰
shirt man very good, actually
Impossible, shirt man killed 100 bazillion people
@@superpppants3820 Those are rookie numbers paisa.
@Shlomo PilpulStein What I learned: If you are a symbol of resistance, loved by many, and they make statues of you and name things after you, well then you MUST be a great, decent man. Now, let's all respect those Confederate heroes shall we?
@@matts1166 what a smooth brain analysis
@@matts1166 don’t draw false parallels, you neo-colonial fuck
'The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.'
'Those who kill their own children and discriminate daily against them because of the color of their skin; those who let the murderers of blacks remain free, protecting them, and furthermore punishing the black population because they demand their legitimate rights as free men - how can those who do this consider themselves guardians of freedom?'
'If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine''.
'I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.'
'The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation.'
'Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace.'
Ernesto Che Guevara
Hasta la victoria siempre! Viva El Che - Guerrillero Heroico!! Patria o muerte!!!❤✊
Communism suck
Imagine if they actually critiqued their own leaders.
Right wingers: "Leftist men are weak"
Che: *hold my gun*
Che was weak and died like a dog get over it
@@sakshambishalgurung8350 Che was strong and he died like a hero - the ideas he professed survived his death. Get over it.
@@mioszolszewski3583 bruh no hero dies scared shitless like that.
Che did not beg for sparing his life and on capture, much less before his execution. I recommend the testimony of one of Che's death witnesses - Mario Huerta Lorenzetti and Julia Cortez, who was a teacher at the school in La Higuera. And in the matter of "killing only a man" ... Mario Teran felt stress when he was about to execute - Guevara was known all over the world already during his lifetime, a symbol of the revolution. Che made him realize that he was only a mortal human after all, and not 'Christ Guerrillero'. Teran now had to ask him what he believed. To which he replied, 'I believe in the immortality of the revolution'.
@@sakshambishalgurung8350 The government's hatred of Che Guevara is beyond measure. They are not satisfied with killing a man, because it is largely thanks to this that his cult was born. By force, Guevara is made not only a homophobic murderer, rapist and also a coward. But facts always prevail against empty propaganda.
I would recommend Che: A Revolutionary Life to anyone interested. It's quite long, but after reading it I was truly inspired by the example he had left in life.
I recommend you to:
1. Jorge Castañeda 'Compañero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara'
2. Jean Cormier 'Che Guevara'
3. Paco Ignacio Taibo II 'Guevara, also known as Che'
4. Benjamin Forcan 'El Che y la teologia de la liberacion'
5. Ryszard Kapuściński 'Christ with a rifle on his shoulder'
6. Artur Domosławski 'Latin American fever'
7. Ryszard Grzegorz Kania 'Che - missionary of the revolution'
Read Anderson and Castaneda. Gonna look up the other ones
Nearly done with it, next step is to buy some Che shirts and wait till someone tries to say some bs about him
Read Che himself. There are some great books out by the Che Guevara center in Cuba.
In Kerala, his iconic photo is literally everywhere.
Kerala is the state ruled by the communist party, isn't it?
@@jakubondrus6064 Yes.
@@jakubondrus6064
Yup
Can confirm, am a keralite
This isn't just myth busting or debunking bad arguments, it's a great intro to the history in its own right. Good work.
@@chronokoks I hate to be that person, but did you actually watch the video you're commenting on? Because that's not the argument it uses at all.
@@sethk5396 folks like that never watch the video first, either that or they skim through it. They only want to go, "NO THATS NOT TRUE, MY IDEOLOGICAL BELIEFS ARE THE ONLY RIGHT ONES. ANYTHING THAT CHALLENGES MY WORLDVIEW IS JUST LIES OR MISUNDERSTANDINGS"
“I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.” -Che Guevara
REST IN POWER CHE
Uhh, you mean Emiliano Zapata?
@@alexdeanda7544 I thought it was a Che quote but maybe it was Zapata? Not sure. Google comes up with Che but I am not sure. Regardless, awesome quote
@@elmascapo6588 Interesting! So its hard to know what the true quote was but regardless Che was awesome :)
@@elmascapo6588 never said he was perfect by any means but it's hard to deny what an inspiration his legacy is to leftists worldwide
that was emiliano zapata who said that
Che was the master representation of intelligence, sensibility and bravery in one person. An example for everyone.
¡Hasta siempre comandante!
Me gusta su canal wey
Nice Zapatista pfp! Viva Zapata, subcomandante Marcos, y el EZLN!
my mother had really bad thoughts on che, so i showed her this video and it actually completely changed her mind.
Smart woman who can change her mind with just one video. Now if you can show the terrible things that he did and the mass murdering family that he helped install and rule over Cuba, she might change her mind again.
Ah yes intelligent people decide to change their beliefs off 1 biased video. No need to look into the counter argument right? this guy has everything fit so nice in a package so I don't have to use my brain!
@@Classical19821 cry
@@godofwar4276 yes indeed. Smarter than you at least
@@Classical19821 What’s the counter argument? A bunch of bullshit claims or half-truths that were already debunked decades ago? If you want us to listen to the “other side of the argument” then maybe, *just maybe* , try to come up with a coherent argument that isn’t entirely based on lies and half-truths! Crazy right???
Africans from all over the continent cherish Che Guevara and we recognize the huge impact he had on revolutions all over the continent. Che was truly an inspiration on a global scale.
White Savior Lol
How tf is he a white savior? He’s Argentine?
@@Curry_Communist he's literally Spanish, Basque and Irish. Also most Argentinians are Whiter than other Latinos
Capitalists still scared che will come back, lol
The communists are still licking the boots of the dictators that are keeping you slaves. Your balls shrunk and went back into hiding in the abdomen.
@@godofwar4276 All of those insults are pure projection. Good luck licking the boots of your favorite corporate master, maybe they'll give you some extra bonuses for being an obedient worker. 🤭
I'm gonna wear a che t shirt into every latin family household in the US
I've noticed that among Cuban-Americans, most of them are staunch conservatives, because the ones that aren't are still living in Cuba!
I’m a Cuban from MiaMi and I defend the revolution and I’m a follower of Che. There’s more like me, but we’re definitely a minority.
Red salute to comrade Che from Tamil Nadu
NESLON MANDELA:
There is still the reality that one persons terrorist is another persons freedom fighter.
So what The US did with cuba,iraq, afghanistan and other countries ,killed millions of innocent peoples is the highest terrorism of the century.
But no one celebrates that in America. Why do you think the army has problem getting people to join. Everyone was lied too and everyone knows it.
Motherland or death..We have been through a war in 1971. USA and even china took pakistani side. While my poor county was fighting alone then India and and USSR came to help. And now US is trying to get our land to make their military base. We shade blood in 1971, we still can do it for the sake of our land.
The Shirt Man Trilogy is a true masterpiece of cinema
Long live Che. We will never forget the revolutionary and friend of humanity!
learned more about him in this video than i ever did in high school which is probably not good i think
Read some books on Che. You'll learn a lot. A very unique and interesting figure
Damn, honestly Che's story really is like a modern Jesus. No wonder the US treats his image like the Roman Empire did with Jesus and early Christians. He shall be remembered by oppressed peoples forever! ☭☭☭
I didn't know that Jesus kill lots of innocent persons in orden to install a genocidal regime
Dont compare this guy to Jesus
@@ignaciogreppi4977 What genocide did Che lead?
Authoritarian goverments aren't innocent people.
Yes he way more Closer to Jesus then any USA leader.
Twas an Irish fella painted that iconic image of Che, and many do have rather the soft spot for him here. Solidarity! x
As someone who isnt privileged, and doesnt have a nieve "black/white" morality...and knowing the history...Chè is a hero
Lmao what if I made a cheese store, and then I called it Cheese Guevara.
this was terrible hahah
Fidel would be proud.
Cliché Guevara
Touché Guevara
Che T-shirts get rightwingers so riled up 😂
No I laugh as most these idiots don't know who che was or deny what he did. He was a monster killed women and children. Denies he is a racist or that he is homophobic. It's funny to watch them try to defend his actions.
Fun fact: For some reason Big Boss was something like "che" Guevara in the metal gear solid lore, in peace walker he is depicted by both sides the muricans and the soviets as if he was a guerrilla trainer and a fantastic medic, he even help the sandinista revolution XD
Venceremos!
Kojima loves history, and Big Boss being a revolutionary in Latin America was straight up Che Guevara fanfiction. Big Boss is entirely modeled to look like Che aside from the eyepatch and bandana so it's apt to say that Kojima really admired El Che and that's pretty cool to me.
Compared to Batista, the man was a saint.
Compared to pretty much anyone he was.
The man was a saint period
As a person who is half Cuban that's very real/based, also love your Robespierre pfp
"Being young and not revolutionary is a biological contradiction", Che Guevara
Maybe the experience with Che was one big reason for the relentlessness of the Cóndor Plan against any form of leftism or organized labor
imagine comparing che guevara to hitler
Cuba still love che🕊️🇨🇺🇵🇸♥️
I literally just put on a Che shirt (printed by comrades a long ago) for an online communist talk event. Oh my. Keep up the great work, your videos are amazing!
poggers :D
Jesus you're so fucking cringe lol
@Christopher Stanley Just give the money directly to the employees.
So glad to learn about this legend. I often avoided the shirt because I didn't actually know the history or what he stood for.
Che was legend i can say that as person from 3rd world country
The story of Che reminds me of that of Garibaldi. As an Italian i know something about what he did in Italy and France but almost nothing of what he did in Latin America. Have you ever considered doing a video about him?
Garibaldi fought for freedom. Che fought for dictatorship. And poverty, which he was very much in love with. Poverty is a something to celebrate.
@@39up63 didn't watch the video?
@@ars85202 These types are brainless. Constantly repeating the propaganda of those who oppress them. Trying to make them conscious is futile...
Honestly Che Guevara is one of the most selfless people I've ever heard of. I didn't know this until recently. I admire his resilience. His legacy will not die in vain. The truth shall rise.
thanks for this one comrade, really needed it
I was about to write you an angry comment in those first fifty seconds lmao
I saw a beer can that had Clark Kent and when he pulled his suit away he had a Che Guevara t-shirt under. of course I bought it.
i always love when anti socialists use the homophobe card against a socialist who was born almost 100 years ago and that died in 1967, like being homophobic was the norm. Like sweden only removed the illness tag attached to homosexuality in 1975
😂😂😂 I use facts and what he wrote and did. He put 150k gays in camps. His actions speaks louder then your words and his. You ever think about researching then screeching talking points? I know this because I research. Che was a monster and anyone who praises him or defends him are either misguided or just as bad as he was.
This was actually really inspiring, thanks!
That line Che wrote about his older self dying really resonates with me. After seeing so much awful shit its very difficult not to be changed and inevitably radicalized.
"The first lesson a revolutionary must learn, is that he is a doomed man" Huey P. Newton
Rip Che
The only Che shirt I have is a "Viva La evolution" with Che as a chimp, it's simultaneously kinda funny and also a great shame. Old mate definitely deserves more than a deformed rememberance as a pop culture hieroglyph, thanks for the foundational video my human being!
I used to hate the man. I love him now. He was a hero. And there is a reason we love Ernesto Guevara
Why did you hate him
damn empanada how did you know ive been listening to hasta siempre all week?
Aquí se queda la clara
La entrañable transparencia
De tu querida presencia
Comandante Che Guevara.
¡Hasta la victoria siempre!
Good job on the informative video. It's gonna come in handy if I ever need to debunk anti-Che propaganda. It's also coming in handy now since I'm running a Doctor Who tabletop RPG game where the party will find themselves caught up in the Cuban Revolution and have to save Che Guevara from an alien in order to preserve history and prevent the Cuba Revolution from failing.
"Shoot Coward your only killing a man"
Well actually, according to facts, logic, and reason - you're totally correct
but think of the landowners!!1!
I read somewhere that the reason why Che wanted to start a revolution in Bolivia was because it was a land-locked country that bordered five other countries, each with a violent political history. If he were to help transform Bolivia into another Cuba, then revolutions (a la the Domino Effect) would likely spread through out Latin America. Did Che ever really say or write that?
One, two, three, four Vietnams. He wanted to bring the Gulag to all of Latin America.
@@kimobrien. The actions of US backed dictators, death sqauds, etc. are far worse than the most extreme excesses of Stalin.
Your comment is largely correct but I wish communists wouldn't concede to anti-communist framing about the USSR in arguments with anti-communists.
It's like 'never tell anyone outside the family what you're thinking.'
That's USA they wanted to bring authoritarianism and torture camps.
@@39up63 west had gulags too but they just were called different
We need more people like El Che, specially as Capitalism worldwide is flirting with the idea of fascism to keep it's stranglehold on the people as it collapses around us. Dying for the good cause of opposing oppression and tyrants is good enough of a purpose to me, as I never had notions to achieve much in Capitalist America. I refuse to partake in this system that has taken much from those that have very little I just can't ignore it.
Requisquat in pace Che
Great material!
Thank you so much for this!
Always a good empanada. Cheers!
The thing that get's me really angry is how people don't see how great he was, how an amazing example for humanity he was. In Brasil a lot of this bullshit is being spread and this kind of video is very important in this dark times.
Te saludo amigo por su buenissimo trabajo !
Um grande abraço do Brasil !
Venceremos !
(PS: do you know that Che was awarded the Cruzeiro do Sul medal in Brasil ? It's a crazy history, you should look up)
@@elmascapo6588 believe in your dreams, I want to see you try
The worst part of attacks lik this is that there are actual criticisisms that can be made and discusions that can be had like the fact that he comited and created instructions for terrorism (even if I personally think that was justified in those cases) but instead reactionaries rather talk about vague and false bad stuff because they dont care about discusion or morals but oilbaron money
Good video bro! I especially loved how you hit the nail on the head with what you said at the end. I
Did that show actually compared Che Guevara with Hitler? Okay, One Day at a Time is off my To-Watch list
The actors aren't even Cuban! 3 of them are Puertorrican and the other one is Colombian!
this was a very precise video that covered what I searched for and inspired me to leave a comment for the algorithm
As a child I thought they had Gaddafi on their T-Shirt.
if Hegel was alive to see che guevara, he would claim to have seen the world spirit on a bike.
Tens of thousands? Sir, you must jest, certainly you mean he killed 100 gazillion?
Anyone who has actually read the man's own words and looked into his life know he is far from evil. He was dedicated to helping liberate people. You don't have to be a communist to appreciate his sacrifice and integrity.
Viva la revolution!! 🚩
The fact that you think people dont know EVERYTHING about him because them paint his mural on a wall,its because of what they know he did,is the reason they paint his image.ESPECAILLY in ireland.
Che was one of the most greatests heroes in Human history,thanks for reminding those ignorant yankees of that fact,the demonization of him by the wealthy elites scum is disgusting
People who have the luxary of never having had to fight in a war, dont have the right to judge people who have. In my opinion
That TV clip is so bloody cringe.
Personally, NO ONE in history was a perfect human being in any way. NO ONE! As for Ernesto Che Guevara, he may have been nearly somewhat a negative historical figure to his critics, detractors, and enemies, for which I am NONE of them, I rather deal with some of his positive aspects in being a revolutionary and statesman. After all, IF Che was a bad person, then so were Henry Kissinger, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Augusto Pinochet of Chile, and other so-called "sacred cows" of history!
I had no idea that younger people hated Che Guevara!😩😮I was a freshman in college in 1970 and every other person had a Che Lives!!with the face of victory over tyranny, he was the perfect symbol of a new world .
The fact that everyone seems to assume Che shirts have ever been "trending" among people who haven't at least read something about the history of Cuba is amusing to me. No one wearing the shirt thinks he's just "a guy with a nice beard."
Do you have any plans to make videos on the Neo-Zapatistas in Chiapas? Just realized that seems like a shoe-in for this channel
It could be awesome, i like them , but there is alot of desinformation
Good work my man.
It’s simple from his face he is not evil and he is humble
True, you can know a lot of a person by their expression.
Dicen que me arrastrarán por sobre rocas
Cuando la revolución se venga abajo
Que machacarán mis manos y mi boca
Que me arrancarán los ojos y el badajo
Será que la necedad parió conmigo
La necedad de lo que hoy resulta necio
La necedad de asumir al enemigo
La necedad de vivir sin tener precio
Yo no sé lo que es el destino
Caminando fui lo que fui
Allá Dios que será divino
Yo me muero como viví
Yo me muero como viví
Yo me muero como viví
Temazo, tuve el placer de ir al concierto gratis de Silvio Rodriguez en Avellaneda. Que copado fue eso