LOVE AND REVOLUTION
---Che
Guevara
“At the risk of
seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by great
feelings of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking
this quality. Perhaps it is one of the great dramas of the leader that he or
she must combine a passionate spirit with a cold intelligence and make painful
decisions without flinching. Our vanguard revolutionaries must idealize this
love of the people, of the most sacred causes, and make it one and indivisible.
They cannot descend, with small doses of daily affection, to the level where
ordinary people put their love into practice.
The leaders of the
revolution have children just beginning to talk, who are not learning to say
“daddy”; their wives, too, must be part of the general sacrifice of their lives
in order to take the revolution to its destiny. The circle of their friends is
limited to the circle of comrades in the revolution. There is no life outside
it.
In these
circumstances one must have a large dose of humanity, a large dose of a sense
of justice and truth in order to avoid dogmatic extremes, cold scholasticism,
or an isolation from the masses. We must strive every day so that this love of
living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as
examples, as a moving force”
“THE REVOLUTIONARY ACTS WITH
LOVE FOR HUMAN BEINGS AND FOR LIFE, NOT HATE.”
