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the gusanos have gone insane
This one actually made me giggle
ooh yes call me a communist im going to bust
this may not be the world as it was meant to be, but please do not surrender your hope. a day will come when the proletariat rises once more, and with it, a gentler future. until then, hold on to the belief that peace is still possible.
after all, anyone who believes in a more equal and humane future should resist pessimism. pessimism treats the present order as permanent. we know that history has never stood still.
i have seen so many comrades feel hopeless and disheartened by the state of the world. some so weary that they no longer wish to concern themselves with politics at all. but that is not how we should look upon these times.
the ruling classes have always wanted us to believe that the world as it exists today is the only world that can exist. they present their power as common sense, their wealth as merit, their dominance as inevitability. but every social order in history has claimed permanence in the very moment before it began to crumble.
we do not inherit our convictions for moments of comfort. we carry them precisely for moments such as these. when the horizon seems dark, when every headline feels like another defeat, when the future appears more distant than ever. if our hope depended on easy victories, it would not be hope at all.
beneath all that seeks to crush it, the working class still dreams. as long as it does, history remains unfinished.
"To be young and not a revolutionary is a biological contradiction"
— Salvador Allende Gossens
Some communists seem determined to prove that revolutionaries like Che were not homophobic in the 1960s, that those ideas are just imperialist lies, but it's not entirely true. Che was homophobic. It had no bearing on his policies and he did not persecute gay people, but yeah, he was prejudiced. But you know what? It doesn't fucking matter
Butch lesbian and transgender person saying this: I don't give a fuck that Che had homophobic prejudice in the 1960s. Sure, he probably would have renounced it like Fidel did, had he lived longer. But it had nothing to do with his policies, his legacy, nor his political theory. He didn't abuse or hate-crime gay people. So why do we insist on sanitising his character? Or pretending that he was somehow a queer ally or just not affected by historical attitudes, when even Aleida (his wife) called him a "machista"
The accusations that he was a racist are false, yes; Che was steadfastly an anti-racist and anti-imperialist who associated himself with non-white people and marginalised populations. Refuting those allegations is necessary, especially because it has direct relevance to his political role and is almost laughably false
But there seems to be almost an obsession with young communists trying to prove that Che didn't say anything homophobic, to the point of applying different standards to media that suggests he was. For exmaple, Juan Goytisolo's recollection of Che contemptuously calling a prominent and openly gay poet a "maricon" (faggot). I've seen people claim that no, this isn't a reliable source! And I will say that I know very little about Juan Goytisolo, but I've seen nobody give evidence to support the idea that he lied. Maybe Che did say it, maybe he didn't, none of us were there, but I know that people wouldn't be immediately jumping to claim it's a lie if it had been something positive instead
Most of us consider Jon Lee Anderson's biography reliable, but conveniently ignore that he claimed Che and Fidel were homophobic. I have a lot of problems with Anderson's historical analysis, particularly as he represents Fidel and interprets Cuba's "authoritarian" policies, but I have real arguments and basis for that criticism. I'm obviously not going to go into it now, but most communists here regard Anderson's representation of Che as correct yet simultaneously deny Che's prejudice: that is a contradiction
The only thing this behaviour does is reinforce the idea that the revolutionaries we admire must adhere to our contemporary standards in order to be respected or admired. To me it resembles liberal purity politics. Now, don't get me wrong, the situation would be different if Che was going around killing or abusing gay people (as anti-communists say). Those claims are certainly dangerous and should absolutely be resisted. But we need to have clear priorities and understand what is relevant to his policies and legacies, what should we criticise and what should we admire. If he said faggot a couple of times and viewed homosexuality in a negative way, yet did not apply these attitudes to his political policy / theory in any way shape or form, why do we keep obsessing over it? We can acknowledge that those attitudes of his were harmful without pretending they didn't exist
Liberals and reactionaries of all kinds won't somehow take our arguments more seriously if we appear so desperate to purify all our revolutionaries. It's bad practice as people who claim to care about history, authenticity, or principle. And we should know what to prioritise. This doesn't mean we need to pretend it was harmless, more so that we need to know what relates to Che's legacy and how to formulate our arguments instead of trying to make Che seem like a 21st century queer activist. He was a cisgender, heterosexual man born in 1928 and that is going to show
All this to say: stop trying to sanitise Che's character for the sake of your comfort
Not arguing with a man w big brown eyes. whatever u say beautiful
they call me a tankie and a dirty commie but they never call me a liar ♡
some anti communists seem to love humiliating themselves with the claims they make about communism. you cannot seriously look me in the eye and tell me that you believe we want to share a single toothbrush among a group of people.
communism is when no iphone no labubu and communal toothbrush
guys this loser has never used tumblr
yes i have you fucking loser i joined tumblr in 2018 but decided to leave and get back on the right track until yo ass dragged me back here again