Nowadays, why is Che more popular than lenin,stalin or castro?
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Che died before he achieved the goals of his revolution. So he is seen as more of a "freedom fighter" against the corrupted military dictatorships in south america. But who knows how Che would be like when he becomes a leader of a country? It's possible that he might be just as opressive as the other three, but he just never made it to the top.
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I guess to an extent I do, not the communist part but rather the part of him not fearing change and thinking he could make a difference, whther it was good or bad in the end.  Here is his short bio.\n\nGuevara, Che \n \n \n(Ernesto Guevara)  (chā gāvä´rä, ārnĕs´tō) , 1928—67, Cuban revolutionary and political leader, b. Argentina. Trained as a physician at the Univ. of Buenos Aires, he took part (1952) in riots against the dictator Juan Perón in Argentina, joined agitators in Bolivia, and worked in a leper colony. In 1953 he went to Guatemala, joined the leftist regime of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, and when Arbenz was overthrown (1954) fled to Mexico, where he met Fidel Castro and other Cuban rebels. Guevara became Castro's chief lieutenant soon after the rebel invasion of Cuba in 1956, in which he proved to be a resourceful guerrilla leader. As president of the national bank after the fall (Jan., 1959) of Fulgencio Batista he was instrumental in cutting Cuba's traditional ties with the United States and in directing the flow of trade to the Communist bloc. He served (1961—65) as minister of industry. At heart a revolutionary rather than an administrator, he left Cuba in 1965 to foster revolutionary activity in the Congo and other countries. In 1967, directing an ineffective guerrilla movement in Bolivia, he was wounded, captured, and executed by government troops. Guevara wrote Guerrilla Warfare (1961), Man and Socialism in Cuba (1967), Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War (1968), and The African Dream (2001), a forthright account of the failed Congo rebellion.
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Communists are cool because they make every shmuck as miserable as the next schmuck :).  And by the way, communism has never reached the strides Capitalism has in terms of wealth and common good.
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First of all, Communism has never truly been achieved.  Communism is Karl Marx's idea on how to control the masses which he wrote about in his book "Communist Manifesto".  It involves everybody working for everybody, no religion, and an overall unified society.  Socialism is what was seen in the Former Soviet Union, in China now.  It involves ideas of everybody working for the whole, but is a very far cry from Communism.  To Compare to the United States: liberals and extreme leftists are socialists.
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Stalin, Hitler, Lenin, Mao or Pol Pot ??\n\nAll the above are tyrants .. dictators .. murderers\n\nthe first .. killed more than 20 millions .. mostly his own ppl.\n\nthe second .. killed more than 50 millions during his WW2 of 6 yrs .. he even ordered destruction of Germany itself on his last days in the Bunker\n\nthe third Mao .. maybe some 3-4 millions .. all were his enemies\n\nthe 4th .. PSYCHOTIC leader who killed his own ppl. about 4 millions .. and made a Pyramid of their skulls
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You should read Karl Marx's book.  I read it in 9th grade, and was supprised by how differently it was portrayed.  The idea of communism in it's simplest is perfect.  Every one has food, clothing, and more than enough to thrive.  Communism would be the perfect government if we could find a ruler who wasn't self absorbed and greedy.  Unfortunately, that's not how most humans function.  (In enland, with the Monarch, Parliment was established to make sure that the King/ Queen wasn't abusing his/her powers, and I bet something similar would function well in a Communist community).  Communisim is only condsidered bad or evil because dictators in the past have proven to be bad or evil.
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Communism is just dictatorship by another name.\n\nUnder the communist system you only require one political party - a party of the people, as every one is equal and therefore the is no requirement for additional parties.\n\nThe old USSR was closer to the true communist system than many people imagined.\n\nEven Karl Marx, regarded as the founder of socialism, did not see communism as being right for the people. He called it a form of State Capitalism, whereby the ruling dictact had absolute control, thereby denying the proletariat (the ordinary people) a say in running the country.
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Why do you ask that ? El Che was a comunist. He wanted to expand comunism over America, and he contributed to create it in Cuba
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his approval rating is very low by the businessmen, city-dwellers, and journalists. However, he is still very popular for the up-countrymen.
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In politics, class warfare has been used for centuries to attack the more successful.  For those without a lot of resources, these arguments can be appealing because some feel left out or treated unfairly.  However, if the groups that oppose capitalism had there way, economies and the societies would be much worse off.  Cuba, the Soviet Union, Canada and others states have tried alternatives to capitalism, all of which have failed, are failing, or are currently adopting a more capitalistic system.
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We sell airplanes to other countries, why not Russia?  Don't worry about it.  Cuba probably has a few 29's flying around.  Our Navy needs something to play with from time to time.  Just ask the Libyans.  As for who is Hugo Chavez...he is Venezuela's Fidel Castro.  Pro Communist and Anti-American President.
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He was Fidel Castro's right hand man.  He was a communist and was instrumental in Cuba severing ties with the US.
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That was Gorbachev.  He was the one who began perestroika and glasnost, the movements you are talking about.  Perestroika is a 'restructuring' and Glasnost, an 'easing of tensions'.  Glasnost was pretty exciting culturally from a foreigner's perspective, but I gather it was a very uncomfortable thing for some Russians to take in so many capitalist influences so quickly.  There were many growing pains through Perestroika and Glasnost.  That is why Gorbachev is much more fondly remembered throughout the world than in his Russian homeland.  I think it's a shame.
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Che Guevara of course silly.\n\nHe is the idol of all liberals...he was SUCH a nice guy and his t shirts are really cool too...NOT\n\nhttp://www.today.ucla.edu/1997/971010CheShow.html
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yes.\n\n  All of history is full of bad examples of communism that were misrepresented totalitarianism in disguise. But pure unpolitisized communism is a quest for a utopic society where no one person is any better than the next, and everyone shares the wealth of the community as well as their fair share of the work that supports it. That is the true reason for The west's aversion to the idea of socialism and communism. We here are a pyramid society that takes from the bottom to support the top 10% of the population's interests and agendas. AAnd more times than not those agendas are to keep the pyramid stacked in their favor at the expence of the bottom 90% of the population. That is what is at the heart of modern capitalism. Before capitalism there were other ways to rule over the masses, such as slavery, indentured servitude, religious superstision....but the basic pyramid was the same and has been passed down to modern times because 90% of the people are asleep at the wheel for their entire lives.
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Good question. Stalin changed his, too. I think in Lenin's case it was because he used Lenin as a pen-name when he was underground, & his writing and work were illegal. As he became more prominent, he kept the pseudonym.\n\nAnother factor that may play into this is the fact that Lenin's elder brother Alexander Ulyanov was executed for plotting to kill the czar. Alexander was only 17. He might have needed to distance himself from his brother to some extent, to keep the authorities' eyes off him. (That's pure speculation on my part.)\n\nFor Stalin, it's because he had a Georgian name.
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Hasta la victoria siempre !  Che is one of the greatest men in history! he fought against inequality. He was killed cowardly by the americans, as they use to do, he is a hero, his ideas will never die. VENCEREMOS!