ABSTRACT
This chapter likes to consider Socialism as an aspect of the Renaissance crisis. Socialism is the outcome of the disintegration of human society and communal fife, and of man's isolation produced by the extreme development of individualism. All the modern artistic currents denote a profound disintegration of human forms, the shattering of the integral human image and a divorce between man and nature. The symptoms of Renaissance decadence are particularly clearly revealed in the various directions pursued by modem art. Socialism contains a reactionary principle which is directed against both the Renaissance and the French Revolution stages of man's liberation, that is, against the whole of modem history. Anarchism is another aspect of the decline of the Renaissance. Anarchism gives rise to an extremely interesting denial of liberty. It affirms a freedom which inwardly devours and consumes itself. The Russian Revolution illustrates the bankruptcy of humanism which it interprets apocalyptically.
