Che Guevara (14 June 1928– 9 October 1967; died young at 39), a doctor by education and training in Argentine, got disenchanted by capitalism and took to Marxist revolutionary zeal to become a part of Cuban Revolution.
Today (Oct 9) is his death anniversary and he is being remembered by the followers of communism and subscribers of social equity and casteless society.
His youthful stylish appearance had become counter-cultural symbol of rebellion in popular youth culture. He is revered by socialists and hated by capitalists. The communists and socialists celebrate his birth and death anniversaries across the world. The Cuban Revolution commanding officer Fidel Castro has described Guevara as an 'intelligent, daring, and an exemplary leader who had great moral authority over his troops.'
He was dead against the exclusive and private schools, and had once said, "The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study." Since, he was also a thinker and theorist, he wanted the schools to be seen as communes of learners that fostered and nurtured learning in an environment of social pedagogy based on values of belonging, cooperation, inclusion and mutually supportive relationships, as I could gathered from his literary work.
Along with being a Marxist, he was also a humanist and held "Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity."
Though he was shot dead on October 9, it was on 15 October that Fidel Castro publicly acknowledged that Guevara was dead and proclaimed three days of public mourning throughout Cuba.
Later, on 18 October, Castro addressed a crowd of one million mourners in Havana's Plaza de la Revolución and spoke about Guevara's character as a true revolutionary and closed his impassioned eulogy thus: "If we wish to express what we want the men of future generations to be, we must say: Let them be like Che! If we wish to say how we want our children to be educated, we must say without hesitation: We want them to be educated in Che's spirit! If we want the model of a man, who does not belong to our times but to the future, I say from the depths of my heart that such a model, without a single stain on his conduct, without a single stain on his action, is Che!"
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