The Romantic Tradition of the British Labor Party

David Frum: The anti-capitalist visionaries you describe are doomed to be no more effectual than say occupy Wall Street was it happened got a lot of press, and the dream of our anarchist utopia didn't survive the real world. So for these figures and the other romantics that you describe this sort of romantic kind of tradition, many would object hearing about this. Well, they're just romantics. They're idealistic,. pretty much the critique Marx would have of some of his sort of proto-communist predistresses like Prudan and the various, you know, pre-Marxist communists.