Status Updates From Che: A Memoir

need to read his diaries

Despite our problems, despite the intensification of the imperialist blockade… I feel confident, I feel optimistic, and I am absolutely convinced that we will do everything we set our minds, too! We’ll do it with the people, with the masses; we’ll do it with the principles, pride, and honor of each and everyone of our party members, workers, youth, peasants, and intellectuals!

Che was radically opposed to using and developing capitalist economic laws and concepts in building Socialism. He advocated building Socialism and communism…not just as a matter of producing and distributing wealth, but also a matter of education and consciousness.

Our revolution is an example of what faith in human beings means, because I revolution started from scratch, from nothing… the revolution triumphed because we believed in humanity.

“In all epochs and under all circumstances, there will always be an abundance of pretext for not fighting; but not fighting is the only way to never attain freedom.”

For Che’s life had the virtue of impressing even his worst ideological enemies, causing them to admire him. It is an almost unique example of how a person can gain the recognition and respect of their enemies, the very enemies they have faced… It is understandable that this should worry imperialism.

Lies are weapons that help no revolutionary, and no serious revolutionary ever needs to resort to a lie. Their weapon is reason, morality, truth, the ability to defend an idea, a proposal, a position.

Revolutionaries know how to wait; we know how to be patient; we never despair.