Fidel is "da man"
When communist dictator Fidel Castro is an acceptable hero, what with his autobiography now available on the shelves of our bookstores, it is as well to record Edmund Burke's scathing criticism of the birth of the revolutionary spirit.

"We know, and it is our pride to know, that man is by his constitution a religious animal; that atheism is against not only reason but our instincts; and that it cannot prevail long. But if, in the moment of riot, and in the drunken delirium from the hot spirit drawn out of the alembick of hell, which in France is now so furiously boiling, we should uncover our nakedness by throwing off that Christian religion which has hitherto been our boast and comfort, and one great source of civilization amongst us, and among many other nations, we are apprehensive (being well aware that the mind will not endure a void) that some uncouth, pernicious, and degrading superstition, might take place of it. "

In other words, the revolution was "throwing off that Christian religion which has hitherto been our boast and comfort". Everything depended upon the Christian foundations. Hence the Revolution was "the greatest moral earthquake that ever convulsed and shattered this globe of ours" and "the most important crisis that ever existed in the world."

Burke or Castro?