Quote:I posted an article with an interview of a friend of Che's saying that he asked to read Trotysky's work and found it quite good.
It seems to me that that episode (Che reading Trotsky and finding it quite good) occurred in 1959.
(I don't exclude the possibility that Ricardo Napuri's views have (unintentionally) become a bit distorted after all those years. I'd be amazed if Che really said that they did the revolution without the working class in Cuba, but it's not impossible)
On the 4th of December 1965, Che wrote a letter to Armando Hart, a Trotskyist who's been minister of culture and still forms part of the Cuban 'council of state' (maybe a bad translation). In that letter (which you can read at
http://cheguevara.cubasi.cu/Content.asp ... o=0&id=681) he writes: "[it is] necessary to publish the complete works of Marx and Engels, Lenin,
Stalin [underlined by Che] and other great marxists"
Trotsky, on the other hand, is placed in the category of "great revisionists".
So I really don't see where Che's supposed sympathy for Trotsky appears in all this.