09-25-2011, 12:36 PM
(09-24-2011, 03:17 PM)kandrathe Wrote: "Hatred as the central element of our struggle! Hatred that is intransigent…hatred so violent that it propels a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him violent and cold-blooded killing machine...We reject any peaceful approach. Violence is inevitable. To establish Socialism rivers of blood must flow! The imperialist enemy must feel like a hunted animal wherever he moves. Thus we’ll destroy him! These hyenas are fit only for extermination. We must keep our hatred alive and fan it to paroxysm! The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims! " - Che Guevara, 1966 Message to the Tricontinental Conference
I'm having difficulty tracking this down. El Che certainly had some strong words in his *1967* message to the Tricontinental Congress (the full text of which is available here).
The nearest passage appears to be:
Quote:The great lesson of the invincibility of the guerrillas taking root in the dispossessed masses. The galvanizing of the national spirit, the preparation for harder tasks, for resisting even more violent repressions. Hatred as an element of the struggle; a relentless hatred of the enemy, impelling us over and beyond the natural limitations that man is heir to and transforming him into an effective, violent, selective and cold killing machine. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy.
We must carry the war into every corner the enemy happens to carry it: to his home, to his centers of entertainment; a total war. It is necessary to prevent him from having a moment of peace, a quiet moment outside his barracks or even inside; we must attack him wherever he may be; make him feel like a cornered beast wherever he may move. Then his moral fiber shall begin to decline. He will even become more beastly, but we shall notice how the signs of decadence begin to appear.
The other quote, I can only find on the usual sources: Conservapaedia, and so on. My best guess is that the version you posted is ... let's say, poetic licence, derived from the original, but cranked up to 11 so as to sound not as hard-edged revolutionary calling for violent resistance and uprising, but a complete frothing lunatic calling for nuclear apocalypse. As per usual on such sites, no respect to the historical record is either asked for, or given.
-Jester