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Oct082011

Killing machine

Alvaro Vargas Llosa wonders how anybody could like Che Guevara. The short anwer is that Marxism, by failing as a political system, has left a gaping void as a religion (i.e. faith in the revolution, in the advent of a new earthly paradise).

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