Che Guevara, Capitalism and the contemporary times

A close friend of mine recently returned from Cuba after completing his Medical studies. We sunk into conversation ranging from sugar to cigars, and soon the inevitable happened. As I am an ardent admirer of a legend named Che Guevara, and hold his spirit of rebellion as a mark of the power of the youth, we drifted over to discussing the country where Che was shot down allegedly by the CIA and Latin American government. My friend, it happens, is totally against the communism of any sort and detests Che in particular. So you can rest assured that in the country of argumentative Indians, sparks were bound to fly.
I came across an article in the Economist last year on the birth anniversary of Che, condemning the man as a rebel without a cause, a mercenary and an assassin. Yes, the man was a rebel, but we sometimes fail to recognize the real essence of his struggle.
As per me, Che was a rebel against the corrupt and opportunistic establishment, and not essentially the anti capitalistic communist. His armed rebellion against the government-industrial-militarily complex of Latin American countries is reminiscent of our own extremists of the freedom struggle like Bhagat Singh and Chandrasekhar Azad.
It is not wrong to resist corrupt and self serving machinery which exploits the society and plunders the natural resources in the name of development and progress. This was the same view taken by the legendary Karl Marx in his magnum opus Das Kapital. I am not a socialist by any means, not counting my anguish over the detractor policies over the development by the CPI (M) and CPI here in India. But whenever we study History, according to Herodotus, we have to identify the correct ‘context’ first. The context in the case of Che and his times was the oppression of his Latin American brothers and sisters by the self serving capitalists. Capitalism, unrestrained and unfettered, can be the single largest danger to the mankind and we have the examples galore in form of the Sub Prime Crises and Housing Bubble in the US and Food price-inflation led by the cultivation of agriculture land by the capitalism driven Bio-ethanol advocates.
If Che though that an armed resistance against those corrupt bureaucrats and MNCs was the right way, then we cant blame him. And the demonizing image ascribed to him by the Media(most of times backed by USA) all over the world should be no news to us, who are all aware of the modern pseudo internationalism and love of democracy shown by USA in the garb of a self serving, jingoistic and colonial ambitions. It was the interests of the US that were being harmed by Che and his followers, who wanted a batter deal for his people. If that is a wrong thing to do, I don’t know what a right thing is?
Che epitomizes the spirit of youth to change something, well, anything. During his cross Latin American travels with his friend, as described in ‘the motorcycle diaries’, he came across a diverse sect of people suffering from the vagaries of mindless capitalism. Non inclusive growth anywhere is bound to cause unrest and strife in a society. Be it the French revolution or Nandigram.
As recently shown in the promos of a domestically made animation film, ‘Dashavatar’, on the 10 avatars of Vishnu in different ages to salvage Dharma and truth, the tag line goes as: Every age has a hero.
I think Che was the hero of his times. In the right ‘context’!