El Che

[Soulforged]

Soulforged - if I understand you correctly, you are arguing that Guevera didn't do anything wrong during the revolution from a moral standpoint, but afterwards was unjustified in executing political enemies? It still makes Guevera a thug.

The revolution is justified as long as the cause is just. What's done during the revolution might not be always justified, but correcting it in the process is not possible, also we could interpret that the revolution didn't ended really just with achieving the power formally, but also it needs of the disponibility of such power, wich might create an space for extremists political behaviors (like executions) just for the sake of keeping the regime alive for the "common good" (if such things exists). If you're arguing that he was a "thug" I can see in what sense you mean it, but he really had to faces, the doctor, an educated middle class man who wrote books and practicioned medicine, and the revolutionary, who cared more about the cause than the lives involved in the process (including his own life).

[Redleg]

Edit:I wouldn't qualify many of those political movements as "mistakes", they're certainly full of intention, though many are separated from the object when the subject is behind a desk. But certainly political ideology is not a necessary nor sufficiet prequisite to talk about "mass murder" if you want to see it that way (though the literal meaning of mass murder is other).

I was not refering to the political movements as "mistakes." I was refering to the actions of the political leader (the individual)of the movement or the individual in charge of governing (the individual).

[Alexanderofmacedon]

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