Che Guevara Quotes
It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.
Guevara, Ernesto Che. Guerrilla Warfare. Monthly Review Press, 1961, p. 17.
The Kuomintang was the anti-Communist political party controlled by Chaing Kai Chek and the major opponent of the Communists. It took more than another decade but Mau and the Communists with the vast support of the majority of the masses, did indeed take over all of China. At the time few thought that they would ever do it.
In 1831 a slave preacher, Nat Turner, led a rebellion in North Carolina killing over 50 white men, women and children. Even though Turner and the rebels were captured and executed, whites throughout the South, took vengeance on any slaves they could find.
The reason for the initial total killing policy was that the slaves had no arms. Their plan was for a small band to attack a plantation, seize the owner’s arms, free his slaves enlarging the “army”, and going on to the next plantation. The reason for the total killing of the whites was to prevent a survivor running to the authorities and mounting a counter attack on the slaves while they still had few guns. The plan was to form an armed slave army and then fight a conventional battle. Ironically, one white who was wounded and spared actually did reach the authorities and Turner’s band was attacked before they had sufficient weapons to put up a serious fight.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.
