The Commercialization of Communism

by Liberty and Power

Alvaro Vargas Llosa has a brilliant article getting to the bottom of all this Che Guevara hoopla, titled"The Killing Machine: Che Guevara, from Communist Firebrand to Capitalist Brand."

I first noticed this image on a television commercial for Burlington Coat Factory and recorded my surprise at the LRC blog.

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Anthony Gregory - 7/13/2005

Puke!

David Timothy Beito - 7/13/2005

http://hnn.us/blogs/comments/8680.html

William Marina - 7/13/2005

Anthony,
Rather than call it Capitalism, I would say it is mass marketing in the kind of mass social orders that characterize empires, where Legalism has made much or real law a dead letter.
AV-L's piece is very good. See also my old friend & co-author, Natrhaniel Weyl's Red Star Over Cuba (1960). As his Literary Executor, I have set up a web site in his honor, www.nathanielweyl.com/, and that book and others will be there free for any reader in the months ahead.
Bill Marina

Anthony Gregory - 7/12/2005

That will be the day!

John W. Payne - 7/12/2005

The commercialization of Che has been going on for some time now, but we will know that capitalism has finally won when Lenin's Tomb goes up for sale on E-Bay.