The Crisis of Modernity (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas Book 64)

by Augusto Del Noce

the Marxist revolution has been the precondition that allowed the moral features [of the bourgeois spirit] to come to the surface, while removing the circumstances that could bring about the revolutionary apocalypse. It seems that Marxism, instead of defeating the bourgeois spirit, enabled it to take a step further: viewed in the context of world history, it seems to have been the precondition that allowed the fundamental characteristics of Western civilization to achieve a complete break with the principle of traditional civilizations, in which “every society is aware of its celestial origin and is very careful not to magnify the initial imbalance, which was the cause of the fall; it tries to remain stable in order not to increase the distance from its archetype.”