52 years after the death of Che Guevara: he did it

The ruling class and its cultural industry have sought to turn their image into a shirt fetish. A journalist told him about his outstanding participation in the revolution and replied:what is highlighted or does not tell the future, history will tell, if we have the opportunity to enter it" Che
he did it. He has crossed the borders of death and is already a myth. As did?

He was a blood internationalist. He made his first revolutionary steps in Guatemalain 1954, when he took part in the fight against the coup d'etat that threw Jacobo Arbenz on the ground. That was where Che saw how a progressive government refused to confront the coup Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, owned by the United States, who eventually overthrew it. Arbenz refused to arm the workers and peasants for them to resist.

In Cuba, it is Che who commanded the column that triumphed in the battle of Santa Clara, decisive to end the resistance of the dictator Fulgencio Batista in December 1958. During the Cuban Revolution, the Movement of 26 July signed the Pact of Caracas and sought to rule alongside the opposition bourgeoisie. Che is opposed to this pact. The same revolutionary process eventually aligned the bourgeoisie and the landlords with American imperialism. And so Cuba, "in reaction", expropriated the capitalists of the island, raising a new hope of socialism in Latin America and in the world.

Even without sharing Che's strategy, which has generalized guerrilla warfare, reducing the revolutionary initiative to the creation of a rural and rural guerrilla home that directs the armed struggle against the bourgeois army, we wish to emphasize that his own experience has led to denying any confidence and support to the parties and leaders of the national bourgeoisie for profound social transformations. "Under the current historical conditions of Latin America, the national bourgeoisie can not lead the anti-feudal and anti-imperialist struggle. Experience shows that in our nations this class, even when its interests are at odds with those of Yankee imperialism, has not been able to fight it, paralyzed by the fear of social revolution and frightened by the clamor exploited masses, "he said. . The revolution will be socialist or a caricature of the revolution, it will be one of his most inspiring maxims.

I want to recall a great master of Marxism, Friedrich Engels, and that Ricardo Piglia quotes in "The Diaries of Emilio Renzi": "We are left not for generosity, nor for insidious piety, nor for the exercise of Compassion, but for – As Engels puts it, "What is true in any case, is that before we can take sides for a cause, we must make it our own cause and, in that sense Whatever the material hopes, we are communists ".

I bring this appointment because at that time a cultural guevarism is generally proposed, a softened left stance, a left being for mercy, while we try to impose a class conciliation policy supposedly realistic.

Our modest homage to Che, to her struggle and her memory, is to keep them in the face of the planned misery that capitalism is leading to resignation in the face of the difficult and exciting path to the horizon of the liberation of humanity. .

* Candidate for the National FIT deputy unit