The utilitarian idea that happiness can be quantified is a materialist and reductive manner of assessing human happiness. Human fulfillment is too abstract, too intangible, too complex, too subtle to be analyzed in such a way.

While we may admire certain aspects of Romanticism, its tendencies of Romanticism to exalt emotions, reject social norms, and ground moral values in subjective personal experience are incompatible with Catholic notions of virtue, community, and the objective nature of the moral good.

Communism, with its materialistic ideology, collectivist principles, and utopian promises, stands in stark opposition to Catholic teaching and human dignity, as history has repeatedly demonstrated.