Like taking up smoking to "rebel" and shock the establishment.

The communist revolutions were about replacing one oppressive regime, with a better organised and more oppressive regime.

"...replacing one oppressive regime, with a better organised and more oppressive regime."

Exactly, but we keep doing it over and over again. It's like Bahtra's theory on economic cycles - one "age" invariably follows the other and it's probably humanity's fate.

In the end it's about a small number (usually behind the scenes) controlling a much larger group for little more than self-interest and it's always masquerading as principle.

Somehow I think the Che image sells a lot more T-Shirts than a Gillard or Abbott one ever will.

SM

Agree with Wobbles. It is just a symbol, like that one with a man nailed to a crucifix that many people wear hanging around their neck or may even been seen gracing the walls of hospitals, some governments, some schools - I understand that that symbol is not about supporting torture leading to death.