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Utopianism
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Romantic utopianism is the opiate of the leftists.
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― Springtime for Snowflakes: Social Justice and Its Postmodern Parentage
― Springtime for Snowflakes: Social Justice and Its Postmodern Parentage
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All political ideals, that of making the people happy is perhaps the most dangerous one. It leads invariably to the attempt to impose our scale of ‘higher’ values upon others, in order to make them realize what seems to us of greatest importance for their happiness; in order, as it were, to save their souls. It leads to Utopianism and Romanticism. We all feel certain that everybody would be happy in the beautiful, the perfect community of our dreams.
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― The Open Society and Its Enemies
― The Open Society and Its Enemies