Trevor,
you've selected a left wing romantic from the 1960s who protested Australia's involvement in the Vietnam war to make your case.
Yet both revolutionaries and reactionaries count themselves as romantics. That suggests that political romanticism is not a coherent doctrine with an internally consistent core of ideas.
My reading of the 1960s revolutionary romantics is that they were as much concerned with self-celebration as political action; as much about emotional satisfaction as political ideas; as much about celebrity as political doctrine about Australia's foreign policy.
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at August 6, 2004 11:46 PM | TrackBack