In May 1998 the publisher Feltrinelli Milan gave the prints "Before he died," the transcription of two notebooks found in the backpack of Ernesto Che Guevara after the battle in Quebrada del Yuro 8 October 1967, the day before his summary execution (hence the title of the book) . A copy of the books had arrived in an envelope to the editor from La Paz to reserved channels, perhaps the same ones who allowed the publication in 1968 in Italy in the world premiere of "Diary in Bolivia", found among own personal effects which were the two notebooks.
The notes published in full in "Before you die" are dense reading notes which reflect the theoretical interests of Che Guevara during his last adventure guerrilla, mostly quotes from Mao, Stalin, Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Lenin, and so on. Here and there, dry and brief comments from the hand of Ernesto.
Both quotes prove that the comments, if there was no need, the 'orthodox ideological adherence of Che Guevara, until almost his last breath, the Marxist-Leninist tradition, and not as a mere reference to the fundamental texts, but also hours and hours as the ratio critical dialectic, but still organic, the parable of the countries of real socialism, the Soviet Union in the head. We encounter from time to time in some stoccatina to Khrushchev or Trotsky, but Stalin always appears in contexts which would suggest a thicker and more mature theoretical breakthrough.
E 'surprising, in fact, that a Marxist ideas that now seems dated
even in the eyes of his most enthusiastic admirers - who, having no Marx in the attic, have at least seen the Soviet Union dissolved in corruption and inefficiency - still emanates a charm on the edge of myth, precisely at a time when the construction of myths is entirely under the control of his enemies triumphant, but you keep a cautious distance from him, as for fear of getting burned.
is not the case with his comrades in arms, Fidel Castro, the subject of a decades-long campaign of demonization in the name of slander and lies that, as discovery and easily refuted with facts, has certainly left its sign. Not that at all, as in the West, we present the spontaneous mental association with Fidel's dictatorship and repression. On the contrary, everything that was once called the Third World, with the obvious exception of the Creole aristocracy and their equivalents outside colonial Latin America, Fidel is perceived primarily as the leader of an epic rescue of a people's victory oppressed.
But this only makes more pressing the question about Che Guevara, because his immense popularity has not been shaken even in the gardens of the Empire? Why is the best we could do with him and put it in Pantheon depoliticized to some good guys, along with Gandhi and Martin Luther King, or even John Kennedy (and why not Jacqueline ...?) There would be no surprise that sooner or later we saw him reduced to santino used in some libertarian Orange Revolution promoted by the National Endowment for Democracy to destabilize any government limited cooperation with Washington.
Why do you deal with Che Guevara as did the Catholic Church of the origins, che di fronte ai miti pagani troppo radicati nelle credenze del popolo da evangelizzare, ne faceva oggetti di devozione cristiana, creando santuari mariani là dove prima si venerava una dea? E, nel caso di Che Guevara, collegando la sua effige a pallide ed esangui esaltazioni della libertà e dei diritti umani, buone per tutte le stagioni e per tutti i consumi ideologici e propagandistici?
Ho la mia ipotesi che, per quanto banale, vorrei comunque provare a spiegare in due parole. La vita e la morte del Che -- e non la sua effige -- incarnano lo spirito della ribellione, ed uso questa parola distinguendola dal termine affine di rivoluzione, riferendomi ad un concetto forse più politicamente primitivo ma assai più vitale e incoercibile. La ribellione è personale, mentre la rivoluzione è collettiva. La prima è un sentimento, mentre la seconda è inseparabile da un programma ideologico. La prima è radicata nelle passioni, la seconda giostra con i compromessi dell'intelletto. In quanto momento esistenziale la ribellione è l'atto di sfida all'ingiustizia, rifiutata in modo inflessibile e intransigente, è il ripudio non negoziabile delle mille ipocrisie e accomodamenti con i quali si vuole evitare lo scontro frontale con l'ingiustizia, risparmiandosi incomodi e pretendendo al tempo stesso di mantenere dignità e onore.
Le centrali dell'indottrinamento ideologico in Occidente hanno avuto successo nello sradicare dalle masse l'idea che un cambiamento revolution was possible and desirable, but stalled in repressing the spirit of rebellion, which survives in the name and heroic example of Ernesto Che Guevara. And as long as the spirit of rebellion lives the West is still morally and spiritually alive.
Forty years after the death of Ernesto Che Guevara, killed in Bolivia in the cause of freedom of the people, the rebels around the world may well be said of them that the game is still open.
¡Hasta la Victoria Siempre, Comandante Che Guevara!
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