[Marxism] Betancourt's halo [SIC] under spotlight

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Nestor:
 
Ask Ernesto Guevara, who was as heroic as pure, something not  every
member of FARC can say in the same degree.
 
Reply:
 
Something not every member of ANY movement can say in the same degree. What  
really is the point of such a statement? 
 
Nestor:
 
Ask the Colombian working class if TODAY (not yesterday, not
yesteryear,  not some decades ago) they are repressed in the name of
the anti-FARC  struggle, or not. The FARC are more popular in the
"liberated" corners of the  main cities in the West than they are in
the working class neighborhoods. And  this includes the neighborhoods
of Bogotá...

Reply:
 
Ask the Palestinians, the Iraqis, ask the Irish working class during the  
Troubles - ask any people who're trying best to survive in the midst of an  armed 
struggle - if they are or were repressed in the name of a  counterinsurgency 
struggle.
 
Again, what's your point? 
 
Perhaps resistance movements are more popular with people who are in  
possession of a certain consciousness. The IRA were more popular in the Irish  bars 
of New York than they ever were in Dublin. Did that in any  way diminish the 
righteousness of their cause?