By Nikos Mottas.
Originally published in atexnos.gr.
Translated from Greek.
Ernesto
Che Guevara is undoubtedly a historical figure of the 20th
century's communist movement who attracts the interest of people from
a vast range of political ideologies. The years followed his cowardly
assassination in Bolivia, Che became a revolutionary symbol for a
variety of marxist-oriented, leftist and progressive parties and
organisations- from Trotskyists to militant leninists and from Social
Democrats to anarcho-libertarians. A significant number of those who
admire the argentine revolutionary identify themselves as
“anti-stalinists”, hate and curse Stalin while they often refer
to the so-called “crimes” of Stalin's era. What is a
contradiction and an irony of history is the following: Che Guevara
himself was an admirer of Joseph Stalin.