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But Che was a deeply committed to egalitarianism in organization and conduct and there's no point in denying it.
.I disagree with your entire categorization of the man, the history of his actions and his legacy.
Exactly what are you disagreeing with?
Categorization of the man? You don't think he's an interesting character? You don't think he wrote some very interesting memoirs on armed struggle?
The history of his actions? You don't think he went to Africa? You don't think he tried and failed to organize coordinated armed struggle against the extension and deepening of capitalist control of the Congo?
You don't think he undertook a critical analysis of the economy of the fSU and declared it state capitalist, tracing that state capitalism back to Lenin and the NEP?
You don't think he actually was in Bolivia? You don't think he picked the wrong place, and by hundreds of miles to attempt to develop a guerrilla foco?
I didn't characterize his belief in guerrilla warfare as correct. I stated he believed it.
And all accounts by Che's comrades in and out of combat is that he insisted on egalitarianism: the equal sharing of rations, and burdens in the field. You don't agree with that?
Or the fact that I say he was hardly a Stalinist of the "most fanatical type." You think he was a Yagoda? A Yeshov?
OK, go ahead produce the evidence that he was a blind adherent, a supplicant to Stalin-- demanding imprisonment and death to anyone who didn't accept socialism in one country; accusing anyone and everyone of being part of a fascist-Trotskyist-Bukharinist conspiracy.
I disagree with your entire categorization of the man, the history of his actions and his legacy.