Probably a mix of both

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Che Guevarra

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whats that ?

*struggles to remember exactly where lithuania is placed* somewhere in eastern europe no ? very near russia? above italy.. damn. they crowded too many countries there

Che Guevarra, otherwise remembered by many as the better looking Cuban Pinko, was Fidel's herald of revolution. Che tried to export Cuban Communism throughout much of Latin America.

Sort of looking like Omar Sharif with scraggly beard and hair, always wearing a beret with a communist star crest on it, Che cut quite a popular figure among the poor and mistreated in third world countries and also drew quite a following among a certain subset of American college coeds.

He was killed in Bolivia back in 1967 while trying to lead a group of communist guerillas against the Military Junta governing Bolivia at the time.

it herald's the return of zeratural and the revival of communism. coincidentally, various islamic slogans have been appearing on the walls of Wolstanton Village fish and chip shop.

Che Guevarra... the guy who is on all the T-shirts these days.



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Edited by - Wizard on 7/27/2004 2:44:45 PM

As I said, Communism is "cool" these days, like fresh fruit juice and sushi. *Shakes head*

Ironically, most folks who think communism is "cool" don't have a clue about it.

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That looks errily similar to Suadi Sadono from Splinter Cell: Pandora Tommorrow. Seriously, even in the game Sadono T-shirts became popular. Wait....(SPOILER- I do a double take, looking for a canister full of the smallpox virus.)

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That's because a lot of schools don't spend a lot of time on it. They say communism was bad and we beat in the cold war as teh secret police beat their own citezens. That's it. We really don't learn much about the idelology behind it, most of what I know comes from my brother who's read lot of the revolutionaries. I think the reason Che is so popular is 1) He lead a sucessfull revolt that hasn't collapsed yet, 2) The un-copyrighted logo looks great on a t-shirt, and 3) He wasn't a hypocrite. He was a man of the people, often leaving his desk job in the capital to cut sugar cane in the fields and encouraged other diplomats to do the same. Did he have some problems, sure (was divorced, probably had an affair, wanted 9 kids so he could make his own baseball team) but he was still a pretty cool guy. Oh, cool fact, at a recent communist rally in Russia protesting the war in Iraq, the people held of banners of Che and none of their native soviet heroes of the revolution! --- VH16

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@Zlo

Quite true. Most of the coolness actually belongs to the theoretical side of socialist political theory. It really has nothing to do with the nuts and bolts of a communist run country. Nonetheless, the communist regimes used the term socialism very freely to disguise the fact that socialism was not about totalitarianism which communism very much turned out to be.

OK I am going to say this once, I am a Communist, and damn proud, the reason why I became one (or sort of already was) is because A> I was raised as a pureboned socialist by me mum, and B> during my late teenhood, I developed certain Ideas out of that raising, I quite very well displayed em open to anyone, and as an effect I was called (even by teachers- which I don't mind at all, after they have the experience in life) "Communist" more often then "Socialist". Back then, I had almost no idea what the ideology stood for, after some reading, I knew the basic ideology, and was surprised that I could even be called a Leninist, a man which I have always admired, I am a revolutionary type of guy, and I stand behind every ideal I have. Now thats out of the way,

Ernesto "Ché" Guevara was never a Communist, he was a revolutionary theorist, with a socialistical background, if I read his biography correctly. he only wears the Red Star, because of what it stands for, Revolution!! A goal which was always upon his mind.

@zlo, you think thats bad?? We have kids walking around here in shirts bearing the CCCP emblem, complete with logo and all, while they are not even old enough to know, or even care about some of the atrocities the regime committed under Stalin, I say: If you wear something, Stand for it!!

A little note to the side: even though Ive come out of the closet a second time, about being communist, I don't want this to become a hot-tempered argument about the how and why I want revolution, I have explained why I am a Communist. and thats it!!

Edited by - Locutus on 7/29/2004 2:42:52 PM

by the Beard of the Prophet, these infidel kufir beliefs will be swept away. Allah-el Akbar!

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We have kids walking around here in shirts bearing the CCCP emblem, complete with logo and all

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You know why? Because it looks awesome

And by the way... watch-out guys After all... this is politics...

Edited by - Wizard on 7/29/2004 3:08:22 PM

Esqy said:

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As I said, Communism is "cool" these days, like fresh fruit juice and sushi. *Shakes head*

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The only way to eat sushi is when it is cool

@Taw,

Would that be fake or real beard

Edited by - Indy11 on 7/29/2004 6:33:31 PM