Julius Evola, Unsere antibürgerliche Front: Now it is obvious that historical progress since the Middle Ages can be summarised as an abnormal development of the middle-class element... while the higher elements of the mediæval hierarchy were shut out — a development that displays all the characteristics of a cancerous growth.... It is the Burgher who has gradually brought things to the point that today a claim which would have been deemed an absurd heresy in other, normal times can appear to be the most natural thing in the world: that is, that the economy is our fate and destiny, that profit is our purpose in life, that bargaining and trading is a worthy deed, and that the conversion of every value into notions of profitability, prosperity, and comfort, into units of speculation and of supply and demand, constitutes the essence of our civilisation... It is to the Burghers rise to power, who first by Revolution and then through democratic constitutions has been freed from mediæval holdovers, that the Western world owes its illusory greatness, and at the same its terrible spiritual destruction, whose witnesses we are today. (Der Ring, no. xxvii)
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