It was not socialism or communism or Islamism. It was romanticism. There is no more incandescent passion than love in a time of revolution. (Ian McDonald)

It was not socialism or communism or Islamism. It was romanticism. There is no more incandescent passion than love in a time of revolution.

Ian McDonald

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