So called liberals: don't you realize that using Che Gueverra avatars and wearing his t-shirts makes you look?

The cult of Ernesto Che Guevara is an episode in the moral callousness of our time. Che was a totalitarian. He achieved nothing but disaster. Many of the early leaders of the Cuban Revolution favored a democratic or democratic-socialist direction for the new Cuba. But Che was a mainstay of the hardline pro-Soviet faction, and his faction won. Che presided over the Cuban Revolution's first firing squads. He founded Cuba's "labor camp" system—the system that was eventually employed to incarcerate gays, dissidents, and AIDS victims. To get himself killed, and to get a lot of other people killed, was central to Che's imagination. In the famous essay in which he issued his ringing call for "two, three, many Vietnams," he also spoke about martyrdom and managed to compose a number of chilling phrases: "Hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine. This is what our soldiers must become …"— and so on. He was killed in Bolivia in 1967, leading a guerrilla movement that had failed to enlist a single Bolivian peasant. And yet he succeeded in inspiring tens of thousands of middle class Latin-Americans to exit the universities and organize guerrilla insurgencies of their own. And these insurgencies likewise accomplished nothing, except to bring about the death of hundreds of thousands, and to set back the cause of Latin-American democracy—a tragedy on the hugest scale.

The present-day cult of Che—the T-shirts, the bars, the posters—has succeeded in obscuring this dreadful reality. And Walter Salles' movie The Motorcycle Diaries will now take its place at the heart of this cult. It has already received a standing ovation at Robert Redford's Sundance film festival (Redford is the executive producer of The Motorcycle Diaries) and glowing admiration in the press. Che was an enemy of freedom, and yet he has been erected into a symbol of freedom. He helped establish an unjust social system in Cuba and has been erected into a symbol of social justice. He stood for the ancient rigidities of Latin-American thought, in a Marxist-Leninist version, and he has been celebrated as a free-thinker and a rebel.

The crazier the better. Che Gueverra avatars and t-shirts tend to underestimate how dangerous we are to US slaving richclass.

Not as many che-loving libs as there are confederate-klan loving cons who want to honor the founder of the KKK on their state license plate....

lol .im the most conservative person you will ever meet....while I don't agree with Che's Marxist and anti capitalist beliefs i do agree with the spirit of a person who fights for what they believe,in the spirit of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson i too would fight for what i believe.You would call the brave men who fought and died in the American Revolution murderers too so your opinion doesn't matter at all to me ..sit back down on your couch and eat your cookie dough ice cream...

Makes them look as if they're celebrating a killer that hated America?

Strange way to express patriotism.

Hey, newsflash: I don't wear them, and frankly I can't remember the last time I saw one. Get off the Right-Wing Mythology Express.

Libs are not as obsessed with what perceptions stupid people have as Conz are

Nah, he was just a nice revolutionary guy.

Libs are pro communist, and anti American