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Che' poetics
"To execute a man we don't need proof of his guilt. We only need proof that it's necessary to execute him."
"A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate."
"If the nuclear missiles had remained we would have used them against the very heart of America"
"We will march a path of victory even if it costs millions of atomic victims keeping hatred alive and fan it to paroxysm."
"Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any enemy that falls in my hands! My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. With the deaths of my enemies, I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial bowl."
"The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing, have seen their patch invaded by a different kind of slave: The Portuguese. The black is indolent and fanciful, he spends his money on frivolity and drink.
"In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm."
Anyone who deviated from the “new man” was seen as a ”counter-revolutionary.” Such was the case of gay men whom Guevara referred to as “sexual perverts.” Both Guevara and Castro considered homosexuality a bourgeois decadence. “A deviation of that nature clashes with the concept we have of what a militant communist should be.”
"Go ahead and try them tomorrow morning — but execute them NOW!"
Che Guevara also helped establish the first Cuban concentration camp in Guanahacabibes in 1960. This camp was the first of many. From the Nazis, the Cuban government also adapted the motto at Auschwitz, “Work sets you free,” changing it to “Work will make you men.” Homosexuals, Jehova Witnesses, Afro-Cuban priests, and others who were believed to have committed a crime against revolutionary morals, were forced to work in these camps to correct their “anti-social behavior.” Many of them died while others were tortured or raped.
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