[lbo-talk] Resurrection of Ernesto Che Guevara

[Ralph Johansen]

An absolutely fascinating recounting of the painstaking, scientific 
600-day search in the Bolivian mountains - from 1995 to 1997 - for the 
remains of Che Guevara and his comrades slain in 1967, with the 
objective of repatriation - an undertaking inspired by revolutionary 
dedication.

Resurrection of Ernesto Che Guevara

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/27/600-days-the-repatriation-and-resurrection-of-ernesto-che-guevara/

Incidentally, there has been as many know a resurgence of interest in 
Che recently, and in envisioning the socialist alternative. I am reading 
the book by Helen Yaffe, "Che Guevara: the Economics of Revolution," 
2009 Palgrave-MacMillan,an attempt to go beyond the interpretive bias 
even among especially Soviet-oriented Marxist scholars about 
mismanagement under Che. From the archives she portrays in detail the 
work of a different Che from the romanticized, popularized iconic 
figure, a man inspired by the ideas of Marx and well-versed in the 
classics of Marxism, and of his contributions to industrial 
organization, economic management and socialist "political economy" as 
the president of the Bank of Cuba and minister and economic manager of 
the Cuban revolutionary project. His mission was to reconstruct and 
re-shape the mono-crop US-dominated Cuban economy from the crisis-prone 
wreckage and gross inequality left by Batista and to traverse uncharted 
ground toward a Socialism rejecting the dogmatism of Stalinism being 
imported by Soviet advisors.

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