Which revolutionary do you idealize?

Originally posted by Sharrukin Going way back was a man who stood up against the Romans- Spartacus!   Well, we can go even further back to such "revolutionaries" as Zoroaster, Buddha, and Confucius, or even earlier with Akhenaton, Hammurabi, or UruKAgina, but, hey, we are now way off topic   Just a suggestion - maybe we should restrict the list to favorite revolutionaries of the Americas.  While it is obvious that ideologies of Europeans and Asians (i.e. Marx and Mao) were influencial in the Americas, there were revolutionaries in the Americas which espoused their philosophies - Che, for instance.

Yes so true and the American colonialist were great revolutionaries in themselves. I really admire George Washington but a lot of myth was created about him. Such as the cherry tree and some others. It is not abnormal to want to make your heroes bigger than life.

I wonder how many southerners still see Robert E. Lee as a revolutionary figure. There are still some in the south bitter because they lost. Some horror movie had the ghost of southern troops return from the grave and they kept saying, "The south shall rise again!" Some of the kids play yankee and rebel like some kids out west play cowboy and Indian.

You might well note that Gen. Lee, supposedly "freed" all of his slaves! I merely feel that he felt more that his individual "state" was worth more than a "collection of states!"

And he decided to "defend it" rather than destroy it!

But, who really knows just how this rather "special man", really thought?

Regards,

Wow, looks like Im pretty late but idealize.  Cabanas: Mexican School teacher who fought for the Mexican Poor and Indigenous.