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Greatest 20th Century Revolutionary

Who do you think is the greatest revolutionary of the 20th century?

  • Che Guevara

    Votes: 1 4.3%
  • Malcolm X

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Martin Luther King

    Votes: 4 17.4%
  • Gandhi

    Votes: 7 30.4%
  • Other (please note)

    Votes: 11 47.8%

  • Total voters
    23
Steve Jobs is not a revolutionary. He is very very good at taking existing technology products and using genius marketing to sell a bazillion units. I admire his talent, but its not like the world be that different if people listened to rios' instead of ipods. Microsoft didn't revolutionize anything but illegal monopoly tactics.

I respectfully disagree. Apple and Microsoft took a far different approach to technology and the PC than anyone else ever did. The reason you have a computer is because of these companies now. How is Martin Luther King Jr. not a marketing genius? Do you think he could have made it as far as he did if not for a clear message for people to get behind?

Face it. Technology as we know it today, our world as we know it today for better or worse has been shaped by these two companies.
 
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Joseph Beuys was one.
 
I respectfully disagree. Apple and Microsoft took a far different approach to technology and the PC than anyone else ever did. The reason you have a computer is because of these companies now. How is Martin Luther King Jr. not a marketing genius? Do you think he could have made it as far as he did if not for a clear message for people to get behind?

Face it. Technology as we know it today, our world as we know it today for better or worse has been shaped by these two companies.

The fact is that both of them were important, and without both the entire market wouldn't of existed. Without Jobs nothing would been thought up, and without Gates nothing would be worth a damn.
 
I respectfully disagree. Apple and Microsoft took a far different approach to technology and the PC than anyone else ever did. The reason you have a computer is because of these companies now.

What a load of trash. The computer industry was around long before either company ever existed. If microsoft hadn't used illegal monopoly tactics to take over the market, I'd be typing this on a superior OS.

How is Martin Luther King Jr. not a marketing genius? Do you think he could have made it as far as he did if not for a clear message for people to get behind?

I don't consider MLK a revolutionary. Thurgood Marshall was the more integral figure in getting tangible gains for civil rights.

Face it. Technology as we know it today, our world as we know it today for better or worse has been shaped by these two companies.

Apple did in fact make some revolutionary products back in the 80's. Mircosoft started by licensing IBM software and has managed to drag down the entire software industry while contributing almost nothing of value ever since.
 
History is not my strong suit, but I have to go along with Lenin. For better or worse, the Russian Revolution had a domino effect that eventually touched nearly every corner of the planet.
 
So I wanted to know who you think is the greatest revolutionary of the 20th century. I will have my decision in while, as I need to think about it.

Ayn Rand. Everybody should read Atlas Shrugged.
 
Ayn Rand. Everybody should read Atlas Shrugged.

there may be wisdom in your advice in that inoculation with the actual infection may prevent the disease from taking hold.
 
Lenin, there was no revolution in the 20th century more influential in shaping world events than the Russian Revolution.

I have to agree with you spud.

The only other one that even comes close to doing as much damage to the world in the last century is the Feminist Revolution here in the United States and Western Europe.
 
As far as influence goes, I'd have to say Lenin or Leon Trotsky. Both were instrumental in leading the Russian Revolution which had a profound impact on the world.
 
I have to agree with you spud.

The only other one that even comes close to doing as much damage to the world in the last century is the Feminist Revolution here in the United States and Western Europe.
Okay. I have to ask. How the hell was the feminist revolution in anyway damaging to the world? Seriously, your misogyny is sickening.
 
Norman Borlaug. He saved over a billion people from starvation.
 
Okay. I have to ask. How the hell was the feminist revolution in anyway damaging to the world? Seriously, your misogyny is sickening.

If you can't see it, then it would be a waste of my time to try and explain it to you. My misogyny is no more sickening than your socialist leanings are.
 
If you can't see it, then it would be a waste of my time to try and explain it to you. My misogyny is no more sickening than your socialist leanings are.
I doubt anyone but you can see it.
 
Assuming "great" means most influential, I would have to say Adolf Hitler.
 
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.
 
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Modern government was greatly influenced by Hitler.
He wasn't Time "man of the year" in 1938, for no reason.

I always understood Hitler to be anti modernism.

Degenerate art is the English translation of the German entartete Kunst, a term adopted by the Nazi regime in Germany to describe virtually all modern art. Such art was banned on the grounds that it was un-German or Jewish Bolshevist in nature, and those identified as degenerate artists were subjected to sanctions. These included being dismissed from teaching positions, being forbidden to exhibit or to sell their art, and in some cases being forbidden to produce art entirely.
Degenerate Art was also the title of an exhibition, mounted by the Nazis in Munich in 1937, consisting of modernist artworks chaotically hung and accompanied by text labels deriding the art. Designed to inflame public opinion against modernism, the exhibition subsequently traveled to several other cities in Germany and Austria.
While modern styles of art were prohibited, the Nazis promoted paintings and sculptures that were narrowly traditional in manner and that exalted the "blood and soil" values of racial purity, militarism, and obedience. Similarly, music was expected to be tonal and free of any jazz influences; films and plays were censored.[SUP][1]
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The greatest revolutionary of the 20th century is the same revolutionary of the first century. He made it possible for us to be reborn and with that rebirth we are given ever lasting life. What a great and wonderful revolutionary concept.
Of those you listed I have to pick Gandhi for his total non violent position.
 
The greatest revolutionary of the 20th century is the same revolutionary of the first century. He made it possible for us to be reborn and with that rebirth we are given ever lasting life. What a great and wonderful revolutionary concept.
Of those you listed I have to pick Gandhi for his total non violent position.

the concept of everlasting life did not begin with Christ. And, (this is just a personal opinion), if everlasting life were to exist, I would think that it existed before Jesus came into the world, as well as after.
 
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