Che Guevara, Romanticised Psychopath

 

A quick search of the interviewee here, James Bartholomew and Che, yielded this Che Guevara was a Sadist, and lifting a couple of examples not duplicating the video:

Guevara was made chief judge of the revolutionary tribunals and the first commandant of La Cabaña prison in Havana. This was his attitude to court procedure: ‘We do not use bourgeois legal methods; evidence is secondary. We must proceed to convict.’ Some of the executions of political prisoners were televised to make sure that everyone knew resistance meant death. He has been called ‘Castro’s executioner’. Fidel Castro probably chose him for this role because Guevara enjoyed killing and told his father so. He once wrote: ‘Crazy with fury, I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any enemy that falls into my hands. My nostrils dilate while savouring the acrid odour of gunpowder and blood.’

Rosa Hernandez was the mother of a 17-year-old youth condemned to death. She went to La Cabaña prison and begged for a meeting with Guevara. Guevara agreed to see her. ‘Come right in señora. Have a seat,’ he said. He listened silently while she desperately pleaded the innocence of her son. Then Guevara picked up the phone and, right in front of her, gave the order that her son should be executed that night. Mrs Hernandez became hysterical with grief. She was dragged out by the guards.

One of Guevara’s jobs for Castro was founding Cuba’s first concentration camp: Guanahacabibes. The camp had the motto, ‘Work makes you men’ – which is grimly reminiscent of the sign above the entrance to Auschwitz: ‘Work sets you free’.

In 1962, the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in Cuba and only removed them as a result of threats by the United States, which resulted in a deal. Guevara told the British Daily Worker newspaper soon after, ‘If the missiles had remained, we would have used them against the very heart of the United States, including New York. We must never establish peaceful coexistence. We must walk the path of victory even if it costs millions of atomic victims.’ 

The words of an insane psychopath. And which also shows, when someone has willingly opened themselves up to the nakedly demonic, and then in full conscience, or absence of conscience, commit to that choice, rational limits can go out the window. Joy in destruction and nihilistic chaos is the deeper desire.