Readin The Motorcycle Diaries...

[rebel_yell]

well...about to start anyways. I decided to read the book after I bought the movie and freaking loved it.

so tell me right off. is Che a hero worthy to be admired and imitated or is he nothing more than a murdering Marxist?


fyi, I don't know enough about him to form an opinion just yet. so i thought I'd take a gallup poll here

[nashville_brook]

1. what? and rob you of YOUR experience with the material

no way! :)

i'm way more interested in hearing your thoughts when you're done -- :)

i think you'll love it, rebel yell.

[rebel_yell]

2. i hope so..

i just hope it's as good as the movie

[applegrove]

3. He certainly was a Utopian. I think we know that Marxism just destroyed

human ingenuity and left masses of people poorer than they needed to be. And the only way it could be true was to enforce those values as in communism. And it rotted the societies it was in from the inside out.

It ignored that markets had been a tool of humans since before civilization. And that it allowed people to specialize (as farming did) and that benefited many. Mostly the problem with capitalism is who you let make the regulations (there are always rules). If you let the elites make the rules.. you get the dark ages. If you let the 'masses' make all the rules, you get bad markets and you have to kill the elites.

Somewhere in the middle there is a balance. Called Liberalism.