<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< out of the relics of myth, which were also the relics of god, the bourgeoisie sought to construct a new transcendent unity, capable of using the force of illusion to dissolve the separations and contradictions that individuals, deprived of religion (in the etymological sense of a collective bond with god) experienced within themselves and between each other. in the wake of the abortive cults of the supreme being and the goddess of reason, nationalism in its multifarious guises - from bonaparte's caesarism to the gamut of national socialisms - came to the fore as the necessary but increasingly inadequate ideology of the state (whether the state of private and monopolistic capitalism or the state of capitalism in its socialized form). indeed, the fall of napoleon marked the end of any prospect of reinstituting a unitary myth founded on empire, on the prestige of arms or on the mystique of territorial power. all the same, there is one trait common to all the ideologies that evolved either from the memory of the divine myth, or out of the contradictions of the bourgeoisie (liberalism), or by way of the deformation of revolutionary theories (that is, theories thrown up by real struggles which feed back into those struggles and hasten the advent of a classless society by remaining necessarily opposed to all ideology). that common trait is the same dissimulation or distortion, the same deprecation or misapprehension, of the real movement that arises from human praxis the "spectacle" is all that remains of the myth that perished along with unitary society: an ideological organization whereby the actions of history upon individuals themselves seeking, whether in their own name or collectively, to act upon history, are reflected, corrupted and transformed into their opposite – into an autonomous life of the non-lived. raoul v .1957 >>>>>>>>>>>
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