Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.

followers of Karl Marx

The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.

I like Gramsci. He's an important person.

Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.

Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.