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I'll go with Trotsky and FDR. Most don't think of FDR as a 'Revolutionary' but he indeed was, and his plan to dismantle European colonialism at the first opportunity after the end of WW II was continued by the following Presidents. Some of that backfired, of course, but in the long run it was necessary.
Most of those in the list weren't revolutionaries. I suppose Che could pass for kind of an ersatz media icon, mainly useful for the college campus T-shirt market and a boost to beret makers sales. As a 'Revolutionary' he was a distinct failure.
Anybody remember Ho Chi Minh sandals?
My fave from the list would be Malcolm X. Quite an intellectual and activist journey that man's life took, and if he hadn't been assassinated would have been one of the great leaders in U.S. history.
MLK was deliberately chosen by the Kennedys and the Liberal Establishment as the 'Offical Black Leader', and of course the press duly followed along. Hell, LBJ was more revolutionary than MLK, and accomplished a lot more.
False. If you look at MLK's writings near the time of his death, he starts to question the very system of capitalism and how the US waging wars abroad leaves its citizens poor. ("Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam" - Martin Luther King Speeches) (Beyond Vietnam - Martin Luther King Speeches) (Martin Luther King, Jr., On racism, poverty, capitalism, and other big questions)