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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
The West as Decadence
Western ideology [1] was born from the secularization of the Christian religious archetypes. This secularization unfolded in successive layers: the Puritanism of the seventeenth century; Anglo-Saxon liberalism and hedonism; the doctrine of the social contract; the Enlightenment ideologies; the socialist and Marxist doctrines, heirs to Hegelianism; and finally, the revised Marxism of the Frankfurt School, from which all radical reformism of the “Second Left” proceeds—the latest stratum of Western ideology. (more…)



