[lbo-talk] Gorbachev: I Should Have Left the Communist Party Earlier

// ravi ravi at platosbeard.org
Wed Aug 17 10:07:37 PDT 2011


On Aug 17, 2011, at 12:10 PM, Julio Huato wrote:
> Gorbachev will be a footnote.
>
> As far as dead leaders go, Lenin and Mao, by far.
>
> Living leaders, I'll go with Fidel and Chávez. Chávez is constantly
> underestimated, even on this list.
>

I think footnote is quite appropriate, because typically they are the references to fact. :-) No doubt Fidel, Lenin, Mao, Chávez, Deng will continue to headline. Ayn Rand too, perhaps?

—ravi



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