From DN's' "Problem of Atheism" (1963): "The historical result of Marxism is, on the one side, Communist reality, in the way it has become realized, and on the other the affluent society ... In a certain sense, Marxism has already completely won, but negating itself most totally.
Because of this victory, there is the tragic situation of Christianity today, such as it never happened before: it is in a vise between two opposite types of society, which share a common origin, neither one of which is Christianizable. A parallel situation holds for liberalism..
The affluent society is characterized by 'natural irreligion,' by the 'loss of the sacred,' by the rejection of the dimension of tradition and of the past, because all values have been found to be relative to specific historical situations.
Man who has lost the dimension of the past and also that of the future, because of the collapse of the revolutionary ideal, reduces to mens momentanea: today is the time when the moral disappearance of man is possible, when man can fall back to the animal level."
