After, a long time I am writing something again, that too
on ‘Red
Revolution’; so I choose about one of the greatest revolutionist I had
ever learn.
Ernesto
“CHE” Guevara –‘CHE’ as they call him, yeah the man who
adores the T-shirts of many young men is whom I am going to write. ‘CHE ‘is popular, he and his Cuban
revolution are things known to many. I don’t want to analyze his history; I
will just speak on the impact as a revolutionist and the things that I had learn
from him.
A REVOLUTIONIST, HE IS –
Guevara has revolutionary qualities instilled within him
right from his childhood. The ideas a man start to believe, the way he builds
himself all depends on the family he grows and the way he has been nurtured.
Guevara’s family with extensive book collection and with leftist ideas and being
supporters of civil war has instilled those qualities in him.
He, as a child itself had affinity towards poor. His
interests in games and poetry nurtured itself further as he grown into
adolescence. Then those travels - pedaling in his motor fitted bi- cycle for
4500kms in Argentina and then the south
American ride in ‘ LA PEDROSSA’ ( the motor bike) with his friend Alberto
changed the views he had.
A man, who believed that entire Latin America was nothing
but one, the man who believed equality and believed armed revolution is the way
of achieving it, is actually a doctor.
He chose politics as a field and he believed it would serve his purpose
of helping people better.
Born in Argentina, attracted by Guatemala and its
government, fought in Guatemala against imperialistic power and identified there
America as an imperialistic power.
Born to a rich family, educated with a good degree; he
left the sophisticated life and again took arms in Cuba and became the ‘Brain
of CASTERO’ and finally led in liberation of CUBA from the puppet government of
USA.
CHE was
in his height of powers- holding ‘Ministry Of Industry’, ‘Ministry Of Finance’
and a position as the president of ‘National
Bank’ when he choose to renounce that and go to fight and liberate the
African nations from imperialistic hold. He is a revolutionist by nature and he
believed in it. He is not a politician but made reforms in every field in Cuba
.He worked for literacy, in giving land to landless farmers and in stabilizing
economy through links with soviet.
The man who trained 100,000 peasants with the help of
Castro into soldiers at Cuba left to Congo.
Congo was a failure and CHE believed in staying there and fighting till
death but due to repeated requests from Castro he withdrew.
He couldn’t gallant back into Cuba for he believed in
something else. CHE with his supporters again tried to overthrow the US puppet -
‘Bolivian’
government. But Bolivia failed to rise with CHE – Conspiracy and CIA won -
they won just in capturing CHE.
They won in killing him and amputating him but they
couldn’t win his spirit. They couldn’t control a revolutionist. They couldn’t
make him succumb.
CHE believed in revolution, CHE saw all people as one, he
fought for equality. He fought against imperialism. He condemned American’s racism
against blacks. He is a man who saw peoples suffering as his own. He took up
arms for anyone in this world.
It is only ‘CHE
‘that has been put to death. His ideas his views, he as an inspiration is still
around every corner of this world.
CHE
said - “The life of a single human being is worth a
million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth... Far
more important than a good remuneration is the pride of serving one's neighbor.
Much more definitive and much more lasting than all the gold that one can
accumulate is the gratitude of a people.” Is it not true? The gratitude that you see in a fellow human
being’s eyes is worth your life.
“We must begin to erase our old concepts. We should not go
to the people and say, `Here we are. We come to give you the charity of our
presence, to teach you our science, to show you your errors, your lack of
culture, your ignorance of elementary things.' We should go instead with an
inquiring mind and a humble spirit to learn at that great source of wisdom that
is the people.” he said.
The ideas
of great leaders were often were similar, One great Dravidian leader –“ANNA’ believed that a man willing to
live A PUBLIC LIFE should first go the people and address people and should first
learn from them – for they are the greatest source of wisdom. Similar was CHE’S
views.
Some
more of his words -“I knew that the moment the
great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two
opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people”
Injustice
and inequalities are there all ways. They had existed with this indeterminate- human
species ever since the species existence itself. And wherever the need for a
leader, for a reformer, for a revolutionist arose there from the common man has
always raised a revolutionist. Some chose guns, some chose people, some chose
pen, some chose non-violence – only the faces and weapons of a revolutionist differed
but their spirit and intentions were all
same.
There are
diversions- two in number
The one
who suppresses
and the other is been suppressed,
Poverty,
illiteracy will exist for long
and equality
will just be a long borne dream!
But until
that dream blooms REVOLUTION and
REVOLUTIONIST will continue to rise.
Man has
a basic defect
A defect
that exist right through his gene
A defect
that makes him selfish
A defect
that makes him weak
Until this
defect exist which I believe
Will exist
forever, reformers and
Revolutionists
will keep rising.
The fight
they chose the weapon they chose
The path
they chose differs
But their
intention is to cure those DEFECTS.
No revolutionist
lives a life of king
They change
power but they never reign with power
They reform
but continue to reform elsewhere.
Revolutionist
doesn’t l face a death by disease.
They will
arise and will arise forever
The weapon
and ideas are just transformed
From one
to another
It is
only their bodies that will rest but not
their ideas
or their views
And “CHE”
is the best of the revolutionists I have learnt about.
And so “CHE”
lives forever……………
I will
end with these words of ‘CHE’– “If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you
are a comrade of mine”
Some
books to read
1.
The motor cycle diaries –CHE
2.
The guerrilla warfare
– CHE
3.
IF
YOU CAN GET, READ “ BOLIVIAN DIARIES”
Biographies
like “ The life and death CHE”
“A revolutionary life” –
I haven’t read either
Do watch – “Motorcycle Diaries” movie too.
Let the spirit of revolution live forever and let the spirit
of free will be undaunted ever.
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