Combating Liberalism with Che Guevara: Highlights from his Message to the Tricontinental
Hatred as an element of the struggle; a relentless hatred of the enemy, impelling us above and beyond the natural limitations that man is heir to, and transforming him into an effective, violent, seductive and cold killing machine. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy.
A central tenet of liberalism today features a facade of pacifism.
Liberals look with disdain upon the anger that many oppressed people have against their oppressor, claiming that the only way to make change is through “civil dialogue”.
Dialogue is important, but this same concept of “civility” holds no substance. Civility to a liberal is ignoring the deaths of billions as a result of the inefficiency of capitalism.
Anger is the immediate result of oppression, it is only natural to be angry when your people are dying.
Our every action is a battle cry against imperialism, and a battle hymn for the peoples unity against the great enemy of mankind: the United States of America.
The United States of America was able to become the world's economic hegemon through a lengthy struggle against other imperialist powers. The second great imperialist war, or World War Two, is necessarily the material manifestation of this power struggle.
How Guevara interprets imperialism: primarily the relation of the United States versus the rest of the world is crucial for understanding the concept of global economic hegemony.
Liberalism opposes any and all actions on part of the oppressed against imperialism.
For example:
Palestine and Israel—where the entire state of Israel is but:
- An imperial arm of United States empire.
- A settler-colonial establishment.
Liberalism opposes the freedom of the Palestinian people, and actively defends the role the imperialists in this case.
Guevara’s message rightly recognizes the anti-imperialist acts of oppressed people as just — this can be applied to other instances other than the Palestinian case.
Namely, the entirety of the Latin American continents struggle for independence; from bloody military coups, reliance on Western markets, etcetera.
Guevara frequently points to the example of Vietnam and their anti-imperialist struggle.
More than rhetoric, Guevara’s message encompasses the reality of actual material conditions that still exist today. It is an indisputable fact that the United States is an empire. His response to this fact was that the people materially affected by this current order have the right to be angry, and thus have the natural inclination to be bent on the destruction of that said order.
