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The trouble with the practices of rational, consensual government--as Wordsworth pointed out when he referred to them as "the meagre, stale, forbidding ways / Of custom, law, and statute"--is that they are not very romantic.(The Week)(revolutionary romanticism of Che Guevara)(Brief article)

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* The trouble with the practices of rational, consensual government--as Wordsworth pointed out when he referred to them as "the meagre, stale, forbidding ways / Of custom, law, and statute"--is that they are not very romantic. Revolution, by contrast, is romantic as all get-out, or at any rate can easily be made to seem so. One of the great icons of revolutionary romanticism in our own age has been the Argentinian Communist Che Guevara. A ruthless psychopath who served as one of Fidel Castro's lieutenants in the takeover of Cuba, Guevara was conspicuous even among revolutionaries for his cruelty, ...

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