“Not for a long time shall we be able to know if President Johnson ever seriously thought of bringing about some of the reforms needed by his people — to iron out the barbed class contradictions that grow each day with explosive power. The truth is that the improvements announced under the pompous title of the "Great Society" have dropped into the cesspool of Vietnam.”

— Ernesto Che Guevara

Message to the Tricontinental (1967)

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Argentine Marxist revolutionary 1928–1967

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