“The people are weary of being oppressed, persecuted, exploited to the maximum. They are weary of the wretched selling of their labor-power day after day — faced with the fear of joining the enormous mass of unemployed — so that the greatest profit can be wrung from each human body, profit later squandered in the orgies of the masters of capital.”

— Ernesto Che Guevara

Cuba as Vanguard (1961)

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Argentine Marxist revolutionary 1928–1967

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