Ok, okay, I officially recind the rule that you can't nominate one Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
No Bono, though, I don't want this to devolve into a shouting match about Bono's politics.
I knew Che would end up on this list. I have always personally been very conflicted about him. Even if he is always portrayed in movies by ludicriously hot actors.
Lenin?! Wow. Love to hear more about why he's a favorite, FW. He's sure radical.
Allende, too.
Antriam: Sure thing.
Let's see, Paolo Friere is a great place for anyone to start. He wrote
The Pedegody of the Oppressed which was basically the Bible of liberation theology, a Latin American Catholic movement which opposed the right-wing military dictatorships of the 1980s.
Montessori's greatest, I think, is
Education and Peace. Her belief was that education needed to be radically overhauled and rethought, and the needs of the child should be the center of each classroom. (And how radical is that really LOL?) She let the child lead by his/her interests adn passions. She also believed that peace between nations was dependent on properly educating our kids. Child-led learning, she believed, helped foster the confidence, problem-solving and independence which was necessary to fight fascism (as an Italian under Mussolini, she knew a thing or two about this). Finally, she believed just as much time needed to be spent on teaching kids moral values--not in the watered down "character education" sense but in the sense of instilling in them the notion that everyone is dignified and scared, no matter what their background, place of birth, creed, etc. Anyway, you got me started. LOL. I actually have an article being published in the next
Journal of Peace Education about her.
Johan Galtung's
Peace by Peaceful Means is hard to describe, but it has to do with state, global and socioeconomic structures and how they need to change to better meet human needs.
More later...what a list, guys! I adore Wilde and Heinlein. Is Emerson radical?
It did remind me I wanted to add Thoreau, especially his challenging defense of John Brown. Thanks!