Why is Che such a hero for many on the left?

[isitme]

I know, imagine where you've died in the great Chinese revolution, after fighting alongside JimW and years later when people are still wearing your image on gap t-shirts and making biopics and stuff, and some rightwing fuckwits point to your thread off Urban about chinese getting aids or summat?

that is my single greatest fear

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

but Jim W isn't the Chinese revolutionary hero. That's whatsisname feng li or something ? The soldier who was a hero for washing his comrades socks and he got killed by a truck. If was run over. I have the t-shirt.

 

[DotCommunist]

Walking behind the boy, the Che said ''whereupon you are a brave lad…'' He unholstered his pistol and shot him in the nape of the neck so that he almost decapitated him.

must have been packing some heavy pistol to almost decapitate with one shot to the nape. Some sort of proper Magnum hand cannon.

else that narrative is overcooked.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

i must admit I hadn't read anything about the Cuban revolution, didn't really know the details. But I saw Che part one at cinema. If that's an even remotely half way accurate film then it should be obvious. I feel embarrassed about my ignorance - my previous knowledge of Cuba came from watching buena vista social club and one of my best friends having two mates who married Cuban women who screwed then over and took then to the cleaners. But ben i c io del toro is brilliant in that film, no idea how historically accurate it s

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Ah, but my point is that a bullet is too quick and too costly a way to dispose of such obvious scum.

Fine.

Ball peen hammer.

 

[JimW]

but Jim W isn't the Chinese revolutionary hero. That's whatsisname feng li or something ? The soldier who was a hero for washing his comrades socks and he got killed by a truck. If was run over. I have the t-shirt.

Oi, I genuinely have a certificate declaring me a model worker, I'll have you know. No Lei Feng though, it is true. The rustless screw...

 

[TAE]

The boy disobeyed the order with a courage that words can’t express and responded to this infamous character

No bias at all there.

 

[ViolentPanda]

that is my single greatest fear

Nah, just make sure you stipulate in your will that any biopic director has to be able to represent your "complex character and inner contradictions" fairly.

 

[ViolentPanda]

must have been packing some heavy pistol to almost decapitate with one shot to the nape. Some sort of proper Magnum hand cannon.

else that narrative is overcooked.

Kid might have been one of them rickets-ridden pencil-necked motherfuckers.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Fine.

Ball peen hammer.

Cool.

Ball side, flat side or a mixture of both? I've always thought it'd be slightly poetic to inflict ball pain with a ball pein hammer.

 

[Wolveryeti]

I'm not saying this isn't true, but it sounds like an apocryphal story, like babies torn from incubators, or a man multiplying loaves and fishes.

It reeks of propaganda smear, doesn't it.

I don't know too many 5 year olds who have the composure to act out a line straight out of a Hollywood copybook when facing the gun.