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...such disparate Americans as Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Robert Kennedy, who is now much more popular with students abroad than at home. The far-out radicals idolize not the old leaders of Eastern Europe but such revolutionaries as Ho Chi Minh, Regis Debray and, above all, Che Guevara, around whom grows the martyr's myth...
Cult of Revolution. Evergreen's politics is as far out as its sex. It subscribes to the New Left roster of revolutionary heroes: Che Guevara, Castro, Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh, Stokely Carmichael. It has published LeRoi Jones's furious diatribes against whites, mainly Jewish: "The little arty bastards talking arithmetic they sucked from the Arab's head." While not taking it too seriously, Rosset excuses black anti-Semitism on the grounds that Jewish merchants, after all, have exploited Negroes in the ghetto. "We agree with practically everything LeRoi says," explains Rosset, "except that...
Schoenman is no romantic. He dismisses those who have "romanticized" Che Guevara by emphasizing personal bravado, "at the expense of his vision." Che's vision--which Schoenman shares--is that of the continuing revolution. He quotes Che: "The struggle for the Cuban Revolution is the struggle for the extension of the Revolution in Latin American." Schoenman pauses, and then continues, "Elan is only a thing which can mobilize the people...
Circling Vultures. From Viet Nam, her romantic quest carried her to Bolivia, where she was determined to rescue Che Guevara's diary from the clutches of the Americans. "The vultures were already circling the body of the martyred revolutionary hero," she said. "I found it bizarre that the diary of this man who had dedicated his life to the fight against American imperialism should be exploited to the profit of the political line he abhorred." A Parisian publisher backed her own bid for Che's diary...
...lately have acquired another folk hero: in Brazil, priests have offered prayers for the soul of "our departed brother," Che Guevara, who was never a practicing Catholic...