From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Sun Oct 07 2007 - 08:21:34 EDT
Via Mike L, from another list: ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: quotations from Che -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Subject: Fwd: [News] October 9 marks 40 years since the murder of Che >Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 23:07:29 -0500 > >We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are >willing to die for it.- Ernesto Che Guevara > >Hasta la victoria siempè! (Until victory always -- Struggle until >victory forever!) - Ernesto Che Guevara > >If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade >of mine. - Ernesto Che Guevara > >Words that do not match deeds are unimportant. - Ernesto Che Guevara > >Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel! - >Ernesto Che Guevara > >I know you've come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you're only going to >kill a man. - Ernesto Che Guevara (just before he was shot and >murdered) > >Revolutionary > >At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true >revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible >to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality. - Ernesto >Che Guevara > >Our every action is a battle cry against imperialism, and a battle >hymn for the people's unity against the great enemy of mankind: the >United States of America. Wherever death may surprise us, let it be >welcome, provided that this, our battle cry, may have reached some >receptive ear, that another hand may be extended to wield our >weapons, and that other men be ready to intone our funeral dirge with >the staccato singing of the machine guns and new battle cries of war >and victory. - Ernesto Che Guevara > >We must carry the war into every corner the enemy happens to carry >it: to his home, to his centers of entertainment; a total war. It is >necessary to prevent him from having a moment of peace, a quiet >moment outside his barracks or even inside; we must attack him >wherever he may be, make him feel like a cornered beast wherever he >may move. - Ernesto Che Guevara > >Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable >conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he >takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against >their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social >system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery. - >Ernesto Che Guevara > >The guerrilla fighter needs full help from the people of the area. >This is an indispensable condition. . - Ernesto Che Guevara > >Philosophical > >I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting >against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of >the fundamental objectives of Marxism is to remove interest, the >factor of individual interest, and gain, from people's psychological >motivations. Marx was preoccupied both with economic factors and with >their repercussions on the spirit. If communism isn't interested in >this too, it may be a method of distributing goods, but it will never >be a revolutionary way of life. -Ernesto Che Guevara > >The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a >Rockefeller, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a >fortune of such magnitude entails, are left out of the picture, and >it is not always possible to make the people in general see this. - >Ernesto Che Guevara > >The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical >methods -weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a >willing tool. The superstructure of society ordains the type of art >in which the artist has to be educated. Rebels are subdued by its >machinery and only rare talents may create their own work. The rest >become shameless hacks or are crushed. - Ernesto Che Guevara > >I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate >themselves. - Ernesto Che Guevara > >Where a government has come into power through some form of popular >vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of >constitutional legality, the guerrilla outbreak cannot be promoted, >since the possibilities of peaceful struggle have not yet been >exhausted. - Ernesto Che Guevara > >We are doing everything possible to give labor this new status of >social duty and to link it on the one side with the development of a >technology which will create the conditions for greater freedom, and >on the other side with voluntary work based on a Marxist appreciation >of the fact that man truly reaches a full human condition when he >produces without being driven by the physical need to sell his labor >as a commodity. Man still needs to undergo a complete spiritual >rebirth in his attitude towards his work, freed from the direct >pressure of his social environment, though linked to it by his new >habits. That will be communism. - Ernesto Che Guevara > >There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of >the abolition of the exploitation of man by man. - Ernesto Che >Guevara > >Internationalism > >To die under the flag of Vietnam, of Venezuela, of Guatemala, of >Laos, of Guinea, of Colombia, of Bolivia, of Brazil-to name only a >few scenes of today's armed struggle-would be equally glorious and >desirable for an American, an Asian, an African, even a European. - >Ernesto Che Guevara > >Each spilt drop of blood, in any country under whose flag one has not >been born, is an experience passed on to those who survive, to be >added later to the liberation struggle of his own country. And each >nation liberated is a phase won in the battle for the liberation of >one's own country. - Ernesto Che Guevara > >There are no boundaries in this struggle to the death. We cannot be >indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, for a victory by >any country over imperialism is our victory; just as any country's >defeat is a defeat for all of us. - Ernesto Che Guevara > >Each time a country is freed, we say, it is a defeat for the world >imperialist system, but we must agree that real liberation or >breaking away from the imperialist system is not achieved by the mere >act of proclaiming independence or winning an armed victory in a >revolution. Freedom is achieved when imperialist economic domination >over a people is brought to an end. - Ernesto Che Guevara > >The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their >tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West. - Ernesto >Che Guevara > >Arms cannot be regarded as merchandise in our world. They should be >delivered to the peoples asking for them for use against the common >enemy without any charge at all, and in quantities determined by the >need and their availability. - Ernesto Che Guevara > >United Nations > >We should like to see this Assembly (UN) shake itself out of >complacency and move forward. We should like to see the committees >begin their work and not stop at the first confrontation. Imperialism >wishes to convert this meeting into a pointless oratorical >tournament, instead of solving the grave problems of the world. We >must prevent their doing so. This Assembly should not be remembered >in the future only by the number 19, which identifies it. Our efforts >are directed to prevent that. - Ernesto Che Guevara > >Under the discredited flag of the United Nations, dozens of countries >under the military leadership of the United States participated in >this war with the massive intervention of U.S. soldiers and the use, >as cannon fodder, of the South Korean population that was enrolled. - >Ernesto Che Guevara > >Imperialism and Neo-colonialism > >Imperialism has been defeated in many partial battles. But it remains >a considerable force in the world, and we cannot expect its final >defeat save through effort and sacrifice on the part of all of us. - >Ernesto Che Guevara > >As long as imperialism exists, it will, by definition, exert its >domination over other countries. Today that domination is called >neocolonialism. -Ernesto Che Guevara > >The slogan "We will not allow another Cuba" hides the possibility of >perpetrating aggressions without fear of reprisal, such as the one >carried out against the Dominican Republic or before that the >massacre in Panama-and the clear warning stating that Yankee troops >are ready to intervene anywhere in America where the ruling regime >may be altered, thus endangering their interests. - Ernesto Che >Guevara > >We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last >stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. >The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of >imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and >underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of >imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, >raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export >new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, >thus submerging us in an absolute dependence. - Ernesto Che Guevara > >While envisaging the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to >identify its head, which is no other than the United States of >America. -Ernesto Che Guevara > >Freedom Archives 522 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA 94110 > >415 863-9977 > >www.Freedomarchives.org
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