File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1998/marxism-international.9803, message 291


From: revcom-AT-hn.pl.net
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 17:54:34
Subject: Re: M-I: On Che


Jon, 

Have you seen James Petras? in an article Latin America: Thirty Years After
Che in Monthly Review Vol 49 No 5 October 1997, he shows how relevant Che's
actions were and would have been in certain periods later...so minimally it
is an important discussion which only people with closed minds will refuse
to acknowledge. 

Andrew.


At 11:54 PM 26/03/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Yup, Anderson's the third bio.
>
>Franco's talk started by noting that the three bios together make up 2000 
>pages on a figure that (as is continually claimed in these 2000 pages) is 
>supposedly irrelevant to the present.  Che is painted as part of an era 
>of impossible dreams and inevitable failure; and in describing him, 
>"futile" is supposedly the key word.  The bios aim to re-assert the 
>significance of the individual--an individual that the kill softly 
>through tedium.
>
Etc.





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