The Motorcycle Diaries is a journey in both senses of the word. It is about Che Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado’s trip from Argentina, South America, and eventually Miami. He originally planned a day-trip that stretched out to a month’s stay with only a dollar bill and the plane that he flew. While finishing medical school, he spent many of his holidays traveling in Latin America, and observing the great poverty that lead to the great conclusion that being violent was the only revolution. He looked to Latin America not only as a group of separate nations but as a cultural and economic entity. More like the deliverance of which would require a global strategy.
In actuality, his worldview was changed by a nine-month journey that he began …show more content…
Che’s personal values included: political honesty, equality, radicalism, and the willingness to sacrifice for a cause. As well as his position of power in Cuba. To many of the present-day rebels active in anticapitalistic movements, Che is not only a radical but, given his opposition to the traditional pro-Moscow Communist parties, he is a revolutionary who shares their own ideals in pursuit of revolutionary and antibureaucratic politics. These things are what makes Che’s ideas and practices …show more content…
He considered himself a Marxist and seriously studied the Marxist classics but was very selective about the things he would do on his own. He assumed that the working class became the majority of society and that it would carry out its self-emancipation through a revolution in the interests of that majority. But, in the 1958, Guevara became the principal proponent of the view that the guerrilla rebel army itself and the working class would overthrow the Batista dictatorship and carry out the social revolution in Cuba. Guevara turned out to be right, in the sense of seizing power. Although he greatly underestimated the major role played by the far more dangerous struggle of the urban revolutionaries in accomplishing Cuba’s revolution of
In actuality, his worldview was changed by a nine-month journey that he began …show more content…
Che’s personal values included: political honesty, equality, radicalism, and the willingness to sacrifice for a cause. As well as his position of power in Cuba. To many of the present-day rebels active in anticapitalistic movements, Che is not only a radical but, given his opposition to the traditional pro-Moscow Communist parties, he is a revolutionary who shares their own ideals in pursuit of revolutionary and antibureaucratic politics. These things are what makes Che’s ideas and practices …show more content…
He considered himself a Marxist and seriously studied the Marxist classics but was very selective about the things he would do on his own. He assumed that the working class became the majority of society and that it would carry out its self-emancipation through a revolution in the interests of that majority. But, in the 1958, Guevara became the principal proponent of the view that the guerrilla rebel army itself and the working class would overthrow the Batista dictatorship and carry out the social revolution in Cuba. Guevara turned out to be right, in the sense of seizing power. Although he greatly underestimated the major role played by the far more dangerous struggle of the urban revolutionaries in accomplishing Cuba’s revolution of