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Romanticism find free reign at any place where Enlightenment is absent – not only in Arab world, but, for example, in Russia. Russian revolution and Civil War were especially “romantic” and murderous because both parties were true romantic types: revolutionaries versus army officers, with their cult of honor and heroic self-sacrifice. This does not mean that European Enlightenment was totally unknown in Russia, but only tiny percent of higher aristocracy actually accepted this culture, and it also was overridden by their own code of honor. So, as Romanticism is antipodal to Enlightenment, reaction on it, it follows that modern western leftist really are not “progressives”, but reactionaries!