Argentine revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara (born: 1928) is being remembered on his death anniversary that falls on 9 October who is still seen as the popular symbol of anti-establishment and rebellion against imperialism across the globe.
His work on ideals of proletarian internationalism and world revolution are deemed as classics in Marxist philosophy.
He was anguished by the exploitation of insensitive capitalism oriented establishment and touched deeply by poverty, hunger, and sufferings of the poor and helpless people. He joined Fidel Castro to help him successfully overthrow USA-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Physician by training and education, Guevara was a prolific writer and diarist who penned down best-selling memoirs. He highlighted the intrinsic result of imperialism, neo-colonialism and monopoly capitalism. He is still seen as a quintessential icon of left-leaning youth.
Guevara left Cuba in 1965 to help the revolutionaries abroad in Congo-Kinshasa and Bolivia to be captured by CIA-assisted Bolivian forces and summarily executed.
Here are some of Guevara's thoughts to make them short and expressed in haiku.
HAIKU
Be adventurer
With difference to prove Truth
By risking your life
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Battle injustice
Be willing to die for cause
of fair and just rule
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Straighten up your heart
Every day like hair-do
To change the world
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To be realistic
demand the impossible
liberate yourself
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Rather die standing
Never live life on my knees -
Its fight to finish
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Socialism comes
Through end of exploitation
And inequity.
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Imperialism
Of any hue crushes workers and poor
It stokes slavery
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