SI
SI
discoversearch

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor.  We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community.  If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.
Pastimes : NNBM - SI Branch
 Public ReplyPrvt ReplyMark as Last ReadFilePrevious 10Next 10PreviousNext  
To: elpolvo who wrote (47072)9/28/2005 11:52:19 AM
From: Clappy  Read Replies (1) of 104155
 
Alberto,

Lay down your weary tune

Wow. That is an excellent group of words.

I set el Tivo to record that one too.

I got up very early this morning (unitentionally)
so I watched the Motorcycle Diaries.

I think that was the first movie with subtitles
that I ever watched that didn't feel like there
were subtitles.

It was well done and made me think.

But then I lost that train of thought and jumped
onto something new when I read how Ernesto
(Che Guevara) helped organize the Cuban Revolution
and eventually was murdered by the CIA trying to
organize a communist take over in Bolivia.

(Remember that I am the naive youngster on this thread.)

I can understand how he wanted to help the oppressed
poor indigenous people of those countries. And rid the
imperialists.

However, look how Cuba ended up?

Are their oppressed and poor people better off?

If it failed miserably in the USSR then where is it
succeeding? Is it working in North Korea? Vietnam? etc?

Is it working in China? I can't figure that one out.
They have adapted capitalism. But their people still are
not free.

How was Che actually helping the people?

I imagine I'm missing something here.

I mean there was goodness in his heart and the desire to
help the people.

Were they helped?

Is there a better system of gov't than ours?

Why were they not fighting for democracy?

-Clappito
Report TOU ViolationShare This Post
 Public ReplyPrvt ReplyMark as Last ReadFilePrevious 10Next 10PreviousNext  

HomeMailHotSubjectMarksPeopleMarksKeepersSettings
Terms Of UseContact UsCopyright/IP PolicyPrivacy PolicyAbout UsFAQAdvertise on SI
© 2025 Knight Sac Media.  Data provided by Twelve Data, Alpha Vantage, and CityFALCON News