There, in those last moments of people whose furthest horizon has always been tomorrow, is where we can capture the profound tragedy in the life of the proletariat around the world; there is in those dying eyes a humble begging for forgiveness and also, very often, a desperate appeal for consolation which is lost in the void, just as their bodies will soon be lost in the magnitude of the mystery surrounding us. How long this order of things, based on an absurd sense of caste, will endure is not something I can answer, but it is time for the government to spend less time propagating its bounties as a regime and more money, much more money, on the works that are socially useful (Castañeda 46).

Che, a man of wisdom, a man of real communism, believed that every man, woman, and child is equal. Many people describe...