Document - Che Guevara in the Congo

http://www.cuba-style.com/ - The picture that Che paints of Kabila is someone like many other "revolutionary" leaders who spends much time in diplomatic consultations with African heads of states. In fact, Kabila did not visit the front of the armed struggle and constantly showed up late or never to promised meetings with Che. It was apparently mostly Kabila's job to keep aid flowing to the front.

Nonetheless, of all the people he met in the Congo, Che found himself most impressed by Kabila and he said in January 1966: "The only man who has genuine qualities of a mass leader is, in my view, Kabila."(p. 244) At the same time, Che believed Kabila was not quite serious enough for a revolutionary, "he is young and it is possible he will change."(p. 244)

Che's opinion: fiasco

In Che's own opinion, the adventure he led in the Congo was a fiasco. This book is an unvarnished account of what he saw as flaws in the Congolese and Rwandan revolutionaries he met.

In fact, in the difficult terrain of the Congo, Che came to conclude that even "good" Cubans with prior experience in the Cuban Revolution were not good enough to serve in the Congo. He repeatedly said he'd rather have 6 or 8 "super-humans" to start with than hundreds or even thousands of troops who would end up getting sick, running in battle and shooting each other down.

Che's military strategy for revolution starts with the assumption that conditions for revolution are overripe and all that is needed is the stout example of heroic leaders--what he called "armed propaganda." The first group of 8 comrade revolutionaries is a "foco," and "focoism" is Che's theory; however, there is not much theory to this book. Most of it is simply an account of what Che experienced in military operations in the Congo. He gives us details of ambushes and base defenses including some of the gory details of injury and death, drinking bouts of various troops, tropical diseases, the food and the constant ideological struggle of revolutionaries required to continue with the armed struggle and not degenerate politically. It is perhaps this last existential strain that Che covers in the raw that continues to give Che some appeal to youth today. Even in bourgeois history there are heroes and Che encourages others to become one. - http://www.cuba-style.com/

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[marcelocm07]

@euskadi46 look, judging you  by your username "euskadi46" you are probably a basque-cuban. because a REAL euskaldunak is a revolutionary himself. AND IF you want cuba free of communism, then YOU AND ALL THESE OTHER ANTI-COMMUNIST cubans need to go back and FIGHT FOR YOUR COUNTRY"s FREEDOM. you are not gonna do much by talking shit on youtube, while cuba rots in poverty. if you want a free cuba, go fight for it you coward.

IM NOT A COMMUNIST EITHER, just dislike people who talk out their ass.

[cronopiocomunista]

until victory always mi comandante

[AbuKhattab234]

Anyone know what the name of this full documentary is called?

[DMMELLOW1]

WHAT IF AN AMERICAN GENERAL LAUNCHED A CAMPAING IN CONGO ,CHINA ,CUBA ,BRAZIL?

I AM SURE THEY WOULD BE CRIES OF INTERVENTIONISM

[marcelocm07]

@chris96kalonji this was so 2 months ago...

[chris96kalonji]

@marcelocm07 It's in Poverty because of the U.S. Embargo. anyone with a head knows that; you're a dumbfuck.

[euskadi46]

In the way that you write Marcelocm07, you read but you can not write spanish. It is ok. Referring to about "all euskaldunak is a revolutionary itself" you are totally wrong. I am not a revolutionary, (most of revolutions brought terror more than prosperity), less I want to be something like the Chancho Che, an assassin and a coward. In relation to go back to Cuba and fight, I was fighting in Cuba when you was talking shit in a Starbucks. Cuba is in poverty for bastards as Guevara and Castro.

[euskadi46]

No me maten, yo valgo mas vivo que muerto!!!

Facil pelear en la Cabana, pendejo cobarde y apestoso comunista!!

Read the book: "Memories of a cuban soldier" from Benigno. The same guy that is speaking in this video. He new the true of this coward.