In the New York Times, Larry Rohter explains the meaning of “idealistic” Che Guevara to new generation. One helper is former Time magazine writer and Che biographer Jon Lee Anderson: “To the younger, post-cold-war generation of Latin Americans, Che stands up as the perennial Icarus, a self-immolating figure who represents the romantic tragedy of youth…Their Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.”

Too bad they can’t ask all the people Guevara murdered for Marxism about the adjective “self-immolating.”