Apart from the historical figure of Jesus, my heroes include Garibaldi, Mandela, Alfred the Great, Martha Gellhorn, John Pilger, Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Paine, William Cobbett, Chomsky, Winston Churchill, and Fidel. I also admire Janos Kadar who introduced a more humane form of Leninism/Marxism into Hungary. There was a lot wrong with communisim; but there was a lot about which I liked, and Janos Kadar made Hungary a pretty decent place to live.