The Vienna Circle thought the horrors of the political far right went along with the unscientific and outmoded philosophies that the circle was fighting against. The members saw themselves in the tradition of the great Enlightenment empiricist philosophers such as Hume and Locke, and promoted Enlightenment values: international cooperation over nationalism, reason over faith, humanism over fascism, and democracy over authoritarianism. They saw industrialization not as an oppressive force, but as a modernizing one.
