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Ernesto "Che" Guevara [b] (14 June 1928 [a] – 9 October 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist.A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara smoking a cigar in Havana, Cuba, 1963.. Guevarism is a theory of communist revolution and a military strategy of guerrilla warfare associated with Marxist–Leninist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, a leading figure of the Cuban Revolution who believed in the idea of Marxism–Leninism and embraced its principles.
By cropping out a palm tree and the profile of Jorge Masetti, increasing the contrast, and making other slight adjustments, Korda gave Guevara's image "an ageless quality, divorced from the specifics of time and place." [1] Guerrillero Heroico ("Heroic Guerrilla Fighter") is an iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara taken by ...
Hasta la victoria siempre [] (Spanish for 'Until Victory, Forever!') – slogan used by Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara; Patria o Muerte (Spanish for 'Homeland or Death') – 1960 slogan of Fidel Castro used for the first time at a memorial service for the La Coubre explosion; became a motto of the Cuban Revolution
Guevara's aim was to export the revolution by instructing local anti-Mobutu Simba fighters in Marxist ideology and foco theory strategies of guerrilla warfare. In his Congo Diary , he cites the incompetence, intransigence and infighting of the local Congolese forces as key reasons for the insurgency's failure. [ 2 ]
Carmichael lamented the 1967 execution of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara, saying: The death of Che Guevara places a responsibility on all revolutionaries of the World to redouble their decision to fight on to the final defeat of Imperialism. That is why in essence Che Guevara is not dead, his ideas are with us. [71]
Neo-Marxism is a Marxist school of thought originating from 20th-century approaches [30] [31] [32] to amend or extend [33] Marxism and Marxist theory, typically by incorporating elements from other intellectual traditions such as critical theory, psychoanalysis, or existentialism.
Raúl Castro (left) and Che Guevara (right) in their Sierra de Cristal Mountain stronghold south of Havana, in 1958. It was during this time as a guerrilla commander in the Cuban Revolution, that Guevara would base his theory of a foco centered revolution. A guerrilla foco is a small cadre of revolutionaries operating in a nation's countryside.