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Footnotes throughout the book display the beneficial diversity of political integration Freire has accomplished. Mao Tse-Tung and Che Guevara were particularly helpful to Freire by defining the role of the educator among peasant classes; Vladimir Lenin contributed to his theory of praxis, and Martin Luther King provided a recent model of real Christianity integral with social change. Because of his stress on basing any liberation movement on the existential reality of the people involved in it, Freire also turned to two thinkers who view man as a psychological as well as political being, Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse...
While SDS'ers debated the relative merits of the Chinese, Cuban or Vietnamese revolutions, the crisis of an advanced industrial society--a crisis epochs removed from revolutionary upheavals in peasant societies--accelerated in the Nation around them. It was more exciting to glorify Che or Ho or Mao than to do the dirty work of researching and organizing around issues like rank-and-file revolts in trade unions, tenant conditions or day care...
...promoting Communism in Latin America through established parties and more or less conventional politics. Fidel made the point poignantly. While in Santiago, he laid wreaths on statues of two Latin American heroes-but he did not go near the one that had been erected for his old revolutionary comrade Che Guevara...
...Your essayist, John T. Elson, surely chose a fine group of "martyrs." Why did he exclude "Dutch" Schultz? Schultz probably did less damage to society than Che Guevara. Elson's notion appears to be that anyone killed doing his thing is a martyr. The liberal-dominated press seldom speaks out now against the suppression of human liberties in countries like Hungary, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, but continues to blame the white race for being so long silent and inactive concerning the plight of its Negro brothers in the Old South and the new ghettos. Inconsistency, thou art a liberal...
...last time that Castro had ridden in an open convertible as he did with Kosygin (in a green Chaika, a gift from the Soviet Union); these days he usually travels in a closed car with two escort vehicles, all bristling with machine guns. "We passed a huge mural of Che Guevara," reported Correspondent Stevens of the motorcade from the airport. "A year ago there had been a companion mural of Ho Chi Minh. Cubans would only say it had been taken down. They did not know...