In Defense of History: Marxism and the postmodern agenda

Abstract

During the First World War, Oswald Spengler wrote his famous and detestable book The Decline of the West, announcing the end of Western civilization and its dominant values. The bonds and traditions that had bound society together were breaking down, while the everyday bonds of solidarity were disintegrating, along with the unity of thought and culture. Like any other civilization that had lived through its natural cycle, the West had inevitably passed from its (already destructive) autumn of "enlightenment" or "enlightenment" to a winter of individualism and cultural nihilism.