A Hand Is Raised
The quotes from Guevara are mind bending. As a source of insight, Che Guevara is considered by many to be a stone-cold-killer, an enemy of all social order. The quote indicates that he was anything but stone-cold, and that he was an advocate of a particular kind of order.
Wait, is that a hand that I see raised from the back row? Sören, do you have something to add?
…….the necessary consequence (the “truth”) of the Christian demand to love one’s enemy is:
The demand to hate the beloved out of love and in love…….So high-humanly speaking to a kind of madness–can Christianity press the demand of love if love is to be the fulfilling of the law. Therefore it teaches that the Christian shall, if it is demanded, be capable of hating his father and mother and sister and beloved.
—excerpt from Works of Love by Sören Kierkegaard, New York, Harper & Rowe page 114
Sometimes, hatred is the only proof that I really love you. The notion of love should be given here all its Paulinian weight: the domain of pure violence, the domain out side law (legal power), the domain of violence which is neither law-founding nor law-sustaining, is the domain of love.
—excerpt from Violence by Slavoj Zizek.