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The Various Ideologies of Romanticism

do not bear witness to its validity, then that ideology's claims must be
rejected. Those who have adopted this ideology must subject it to
rational inquiry, and would then discover its invalidity and abandon
it. If communists were people who used reason, logic and common 45
sense instead of living in a romantic dream-world, communism would
have been discredited hundreds of times by now.

Because the foundation of communism rests on romanticism,
those who continue to espouse it can do so only contrary to the
warrant of reason and science, and can defend it only with their eyes
closed to the fact that it is obsolete as an ideology. Already when it was
found that the basic predictions of Marxism were not going to be
realised, it should have been put aside. However, it was not
abandoned. Revolutionary movements have sprung up all over the
world, trying to make Marxist dreams a reality by means of
revolution, civil war, guerrilla struggle and terror means of attack.
The Soviet Union and the whole of the Eastern Block collapsed,
Red China adopted a capitalist economic system. However,
communism has still not been abandoned. Even today, throughout the
world, communist organizations
continue their activities. Despite the fact
that they must know that the
"revolution" they speak of is a fantasy,
they continue to shed blood, just so as
to not have to abandon communism.
They frenziedly set themselves as well as
their comrades on fire, as they sing
communist marching songs,
romantically, blindly and stubbornly
holding on to their antiquated ideology.

People who set themselves on fire for the sake of
an idea or an ideology are actually possessed by
an extreme form emotionalism. Because they fail
to think rationally, they tend to react by
committing acts which they falsely deem to be
courageous.