Revolutionaries

Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara has long been revered as a hero by countless teenagers with an ax to grind. You can see them wearing his t-shirts with the iconic image of Che with long unkempt hair stylishly sticking out of a jauntily slanted beret on...

If anything, Karl Marx’s life reminds us of the power of the pen over the sword. During his lifetime, he lived in relative obscurity. Rather than making any waves, Marx was usually lucky just to make the rent. And to make the ongoing hardship of his...

Leon Trotsky remains one of the most enigmatic and compelling figures of the Russian Revolution. If the revolution were a Shakespearean tragedy, Trotsky would be cast as a tragic hero—brilliant and well-meaning, yet undone by his relentless ideology...