Monrovia, October 8, 2020 - Much loved and respected in this West African country is Commander Ernesto Che Guevara, who for Liberians is an example of humanism, internationalism, sacrifice.
Today, 53 years after his assassination, the friends of solidarity in Liberia remember him as the creator of voluntary work, the man who broke down borders, the example of the struggle for the liberation of the peoples submerged in imperialism.
A doctor by profession, but an internationalist revolutionary of conviction, Che represents a permanent example of thought and action in the construction of a model of civilization of a new kind.
His internationalist vision of the revolution led him to leave Cuba to join the guerrillas who were fighting Belgian colonialism in Africa. He demonstrated his talents as an original theorist of revolutionary socialism, which led him to theorize about the new man and woman, leaving to posterity a set of fundamental reflections for undertaking the transition to socialism.
As Comandante Fidel Castro recalled, Che "did not have the double characteristic of being a man of ideas and of deep ideas, that of being a man of action, but rather Che gathered as a revolutionary the virtues of a revolutionary: a man of integrity to the letter, a man of supreme honesty, of absolute sincerity, a man of stoic and spartan life, a man whose conduct is practically untainted. He constituted, by his virtues, what can be called a true model of a revolutionary".
For Che Guevara, revolutionary consciousness through voluntary work, without receiving any material compensation, was a proper way to form and elevate the socialist consciousness of revolutionaries.
At the present time, his revolutionary legacy retains its full validity, free of any dogma that tries to limit it and always open to new generations of revolutionaries to deepen their teachings for the definitive and true construction of the socialist revolution.
Embacuba Liberia