The present article intends to examine some of the main
intellectual tendencies which . seem to characterise the cul-
tural milieu of the contemporary civilization of the West. l
The burden of its argument is that' the ideological conflict
of the present day world,2 while apparently pertaining to
a life and death struggle of incompatible opposites, is, never-
theless, unified in its materialistic outlook on life. In fact,
it is this fundamental agreement of a world-view which in
itself is responSible for the character of this life and death
struggle. Irrespective of the'suicidal consequences of this
conflict, this article tries to point out that this materialis-
tic outlook on life is not just a piece of untoward accident,
but the natural result of the way Christian Europe has
1. When I use the word West, I wish to refer to the present day civilization ·of
Europe as a· whole. America and Russia are regarded as off-shoots of tie:.
socio-hlstorical forces let loose in the history of Europe since the period of
Renaissance. .
2. AI manifested in the bitter hostility betWeen world-wide Capitalism and
International Commusilm; between political Liberalism on the one hand
and rGabnented Socialism. Fascism, and Nazilm on the Other;'lJetWOeD
Anarchilm and SynclicalUm: between the aspiration' of the IndMdual or
the glorification of the State; between racjaJ aegreption arul human
equaBty; between Democracy IJld Dictatonhip; between Disatlnament and
ProUfcration of Atomic Weapons between the theoretica1~irations of
Secularism and the persecution of reUgioul minorities; between colonialism
and national self-determinatiOn; between Apartheid and Black Man's'
SUPl1lmacy, between Zionism and the rights of the people'ofJtalestine, etc.
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