LINK: I don't really understand the fetishization of some famous past leftists (as much as I sometimes like Trotsky, it's worth remembering he was one of the worst moral equivocators when it suited his purposes, and he was wrong about historical materialism, etc), the one that really never made sense to me was Che Guevara, who's good, I guess, if you want someone who was young and rebellious*, but for not much else aside from that.
*I mean, you could plausibly also like him because he opposed the exploitation of Central and South American regimes by amoral (primarily U.S., though the Soviets were just as guilty) outside forces, but if that's your thing, you could go to liberation theologians, get all that, plus something resembling unimpeachible moral authority.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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