ABSTRACT
Kierkegaard, the revolutionary Christian, the most immediate and intimate of critics, defines the present age as the negative unity of the negative reciprocity of all individuals. The God-intoxicated conservatives believe that a society which permits its members fully to express the ambiguity of despair and faith while exploring the limits of human association does not need to bother very much about culture in the ordinary use of the term, that is, the artifacts of culture, which they dismiss as commodities. Fascism is grounded in state capitalism, bureaucratic autonomy and class collaboration; its goal is the "integration" of all into the hierarchical system, by reducing persons to integers. Racism and sexism may or may not be adopted as techniques, but they are not essential to the Fascist process. Both the cultural and countercultural conservatives are searching for sacred spaces in which to live, are trying to recreate culture as communion.
