Why did Jean-Paul Sartre call Che Guevara "the most complete human being of our age"?

PLEASE DONT ARGUE FOR OR AGAINST MARXISM, that's not what I need. What I need is existentialist theory.


I googled the quote, but the sites that came up didn't reveal Sartre's whole thought process which led him to call Che that. If possible, please give me a glimpse of the existentialist theories related to Sartre's quote.|||Sartre supported the Cuban revolution from the first and he went to Cuba in 1960 where he met Castro and Che Guevara (famous picture of him and Beauvoir with the Che that you can find anywhere). The concept of Che Guevara as a "complete human being", is first a reference to the "complete man" of the Renaissance, a concept that Sartre radically redefines: to him it means (I think) that Che Guevara made possible the concept of fraternity and revolutionary solidarity that Sartre had described in Critique of Dialectical Reason. Che Guevara thought and acted: that's probably how Sartre saw him (as opposed to himself who was a thinker but not an active revolutionary).


Hope I have made things a little clearer for you.|||Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna (14 June 1928 - 9 October 1967) Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary and Cuban guerrilla leader; usually referred to as "Che" Guevara. Though his birth certificate states June 14 as his date of birth some sources declare an earlier date as likely, with May 14th commonly cited鈥︹€︹€?.





http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Che_Guevara





http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf鈥?/a>|||I have just returned to UK having been on holiday in Cuba and I visited the Che Guevara memorial in Santa Clara. My view would be that Che came from a middle class back ground and he was an educated man he was a dentist, this you probably already know. I think the Cuban people who treat Che as an idol - cannot understand why an educated man of his stature would want to help poor Latin American countries, to help the poor people and get rid of the corrupt governments. Che means 'friend' his real name was Ernesto.


So possibly Jean-Paul was referring to Che's humanity