The Romanticists predominantly, were enemies of capitalism, which they…

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The Romanticists predominantly, were enemies of capitalism, which they regarded as a prosaic, materialistic, “petty bourgeois” system — never realizing that it was the only system that could make freedom, individuality and the pursuit of values possible in practice. ✨ Ayn Rand Reader.
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