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Meanwhile, Marx: "Abraham Lincoln, the single-minded son of the working class"
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Mao was a pretty big fan of the US as well until they didn't give him weapons. Then It was all "ok buddy Stalin"
Castro and Ho Chi Minh as well, Castro was actually receiving American support initially before he got cut off, IIRC either because he was being a bit "too" revolutionary for his backers' liking or because Bautista negotiated his way back into America's good graces.
Ho Chi Minh had petitioned the US for diplomatic assistance with France, and the US might have been persuaded to provide it until France declared they would switch sides to the Warsaw pact if the US breathed a word of it to them and didn't help them shut it all down (this was after the US had absolutely humiliated them in the Suez crisis and Marshall plan conditioning), before proceeding to shrug and leave the US holding the bag for the mess they made anyways.
tl;dr, God Damn The French!
It was this one - of course, not allowing US corporations to use Cuba as their personal toilet doesn't strike me as very "revolutionary."