Jeremy Adler

23/02/21
THE REVOLT OF THE MASSES?
 SOME THOUGHTS ON A MODERN MYTH
The spectre which haunted Europe in the twentieth century was neither that of Communism, as Marx predicted, nor that of the Superman, as Nietzsche hoped, but that of the masses. In their very different ways, however, Marx and Nietzsche provided the cultural context for the myth. Marx, by elevating the masses to the inheritors of […]