Thanks for the link. I don't see a lot of citations in there to be frank. I'm socialist/communist myself, but I'm always reluctant to embrace certain political figures from the past, because many of them hold onto antiquated ideals outside of 'class'.

The post you shared actually confirms the claims of his views on race and homosexuality, they just note that he changed his view on race later in his life.

This is an interesting read: http://cubaarchive.org/home/images/stories/che-guevara_interior-pages_en_final.pdf

I always find it hard to read 'anti-Che' pieces, because they are often coated with anti-socialist/communist rhetoric. If you attack a person for his views on homosexuality, it has nothing to do with his views on class. I don't see the need to conflate the to, but people use the ad hominem attack to try and discredit the class perspective.

This is a lot of awful baggage attached to Che. I can't ever see him as a 'perfect man'. The deaths he's tied to, his support of an underling who shot a Black man for taking off his shoes because it was against a custom he didn't know about. Summary execution of peasants suspected to be working with Batista, or loitering, or stealing food because they were hungry.

When we see a tyrant like Batista, the is a tendency to mythologize the many who took him down, but what we have to remember is that Joseph Stalin played a huge role in taking down Hitler, and both he and Hitler claimed to promote socialist/communist ideals, but were really only self interested men.

Sanders may be an 'image', and Che may be pure action, but that pure action is not the action we need. Sanders may be slow moving because he works within the system, but at least he hasn't shot anybody in the head for stealing food to eat, or ordered/authorized such executions.