Comments on: On Che Guevara http://www.sagelewis.com/2006/12/10/on-che-guevara/ Sage's Life and Pursuits Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:57:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: sage http://www.sagelewis.com/2006/12/10/on-che-guevara/#comment-13356 sage Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:17:48 +0000 http://www.sagelewis.com/2006/12/10/on-che-guevara/#comment-13356 Thanks for the thoughtful post, Steve. I too have mixed feelings about him and the whole Marxist movement. I mean technically, wouldn't it be great to give the power back to the proletariat? And I guess I understand why Marx felt violence was necessary to get this done. But is violence really worth the price (of course! they would all say)? Couldn't Ghandi or MLK have done it without violence? But then there's the whole matter of making it stick... of somehow getting the proletariat not to turn into the bourgeoisie. I predict society is going to revisit these ideas in some way. ...could it work in business better than in politics? Thanks for the thoughtful post, Steve. I too have mixed feelings about him and the whole Marxist movement. I mean technically, wouldn’t it be great to give the power back to the proletariat? And I guess I understand why Marx felt violence was necessary to get this done. But is violence really worth the price (of course! they would all say)?
Couldn’t Ghandi or MLK have done it without violence?

But then there’s the whole matter of making it stick… of somehow getting the proletariat not to turn into the bourgeoisie.

I predict society is going to revisit these ideas in some way.

…could it work in business better than in politics?

]]> By: steveg http://www.sagelewis.com/2006/12/10/on-che-guevara/#comment-13352 steveg Fri, 29 Dec 2006 01:40:43 +0000 http://www.sagelewis.com/2006/12/10/on-che-guevara/#comment-13352 Since reading Che's Motorcycle Diaries, I've had a fascination about him, but a realistic one. His committment and self-sacrifice was something to admire. He coulda had it made by sticking to medicine. Instead, he gave up good middleclass (should I say bourgeois) living, living in jungle conditions that irritated his asthma. He was one that not only beleived in the ideology, but lived it, and was a pain in Castro's side when he saw the new ruling class hypocrasy. But he was a zealot and zealots tend to go too far. WE cannot forget the mass executions he did at the sports arena in Cuba. That being said, here is a link to a picture of me wearing a Che T-shirt. http://www.whatsinthebag.us/media/Poetry_SteveGoldberg.jpg Viva La Revolution! Since reading Che’s Motorcycle Diaries, I’ve had a fascination about him, but a realistic one. His committment and self-sacrifice was something to admire. He coulda had it made by sticking to medicine. Instead, he gave up good middleclass (should I say bourgeois) living, living in jungle conditions that irritated his asthma. He was one that not only beleived in the ideology, but lived it, and was a pain in Castro’s side when he saw the new ruling class hypocrasy. But he was a zealot and zealots tend to go too far. WE cannot forget the mass executions he did at the sports arena in Cuba.

That being said, here is a link to a picture of me wearing a Che T-shirt.
http://www.whatsinthebag.us/media/Poetry_SteveGoldberg.jpg
Viva La Revolution!

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