Communism in the 20th Century killed hundreds of millions of people.First, there was Adolf Hitler. Almost everyone knows of how Hitler attempted to achieve world domination through Nazi-Germany, and almost succeeded. We all learn of the atrocities that happened to minorities, particularly Jews, during the Holocaust in Germany.

Most of us have heard of Joseph Stalin, ruler of the Soviet Union during World War II, leader of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union, who fought against the Allied Forces while under a non-aggression pact with Nazi-Germany, and then turned around and fought with the Allied forces in order to defeat Hitler. Joseph Stalin was also responsible for the Holodomor, a horrific incident where the whole country of Ukraine was starved in order to crush their individualist spirit, and some people became so insane that they reverted to cannibalism.

Your history books tell you of Mao Tse Tung, a Dictator who took over the Chinese government, turning it into the People’s Republic of China, a Communist government that the country is still under today.

Mao caused 14 to 20 million deaths from starvation during the ‘Great Leap Forward’, during which farmers were sent to collectivist farms, and anyone who refused to join them was killed. Tens of thousands were killed and millions of lives were ruined during the ‘Cultural Revolution’.  Mao, then  leader of the Communist Party, initiated a political and economic upheaval of the country that led to the country descending near anarchism. When Mao died, he left China in shambles.

Hitler, Stalin and Mao dominate 20th Century history classes, but Che Guevara seemingly does not. Che was a Marxist revolutionary who fought in the Cuban Revolution to overthrow Fidel Castro, the dictator who was then holding power. Many of the early leaders of the Cuban Revolution favored a democratic or democratic-socialist direction for the new Cuba. But not Che, Che held steadfast to his pro-Soviet Faction. his faction was the one who won in the end. Che founded “labor camps”, that were eventually used to kill gays, dissidents, and people infected with AIDS. Che was a murderer and a terrorist. In a famous essay that he wrote, Che expressed several disturbing thoughts, including the following:

“Hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine. This is what our soldiers must become …”

Che was a killer, whose goal in life was to kill large amounts of people, and kill himself in the process. He spent his days leading several guerrilla movements that impeded the attempts at Democracy in Cuba. He died in 1967, leading a Bolivian guerrilla movement that did not enlist a single Bolivian peasant. Che was a enemy of Latin-American democracy, and also largely responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.

But many Americans don’t seem to get this.In recent Hollywood films, such as Walter Salle’s  Motorcycle Diaries, Che is painted out to be a revolutionary hero, while in reality he was an enemy of freedom.  This delusional fascination over Che has climbed to the point  where websites like http://www.moreorless.au.com, that profile heroes and killers of the 20th Century, list Che as a hero. Wikipedia has some pretty words to say about Che:

Over forty years after his execution, Che’s life and legacy still remain a contentious issue. The contradictions of his ethos at various points in his life have created a complex character of unending duality.

As a result of his perceived martyrdom, poetic invocations for class struggle, and desire to create the consciousness of a new man driven by moral rather than material incentives, Guevara evolved into a quintessential icon of leftist-inspired movements. An array of notable individuals have viewed Che Guevara as a hero; for example, Nelson Mandela referred to him as “an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom”

Che’s philosophies were very similar to those held by Hitler, Stalin or Mao, and most Americans wouldn’t think twice about singing praises to Hitler or Mao(Except Anita Dunn). Next time someone tells you that we need to implement communism in some form or fashion here in the united States, explain to them that communism has failed, over and over again, that it does nothing but create death, suffering, and tyranny; and produce tyrants like Che, Mao, Stalin and Hitler.

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