Democracy, capitalism and Christianity were the three pillars of Western Civilization. Athenian democracy, where majority rule, voting, and the rule of Law were first used in affairs of State; together with the Protestant Ethic and the spirit of Capitalism (see Max Weber); these elements set the stage for the greatest advancements and achievements in the history of humanity.
Then came darwinism and marxism, in the mid 19th century; they lead to the most appalling century humanity has ever known: the 20th century, where, as the author suggests, the turning point of Western Civilization was encountered. Wars, revolutions, massacres, genocides, intentionally inflicted mass starvations, and large scale crimes against humanity that were committed during that fateful century (all of them being the direct products of a perverted darwinian and marxist ideology) marked the decline of the West. Suicidal liberalism proved to be the enemy within, the cause of the West’s self-destruction.
I’m not as optimistic as the author is regarding a new renaissance for the West. Besides, Classical Greece was not “re-surrected” and neither was Rome in the era of Enlightentment. What is the West facing today, through rampant combined advances of such contradictory socio-economic forces as atheism, homosexuality and islam, a duality in demographics (whereby Western population growth rates are low and declining and non-Western rates are high) failed monopoly capitalism and statism (all global forces at work), is virtually insurmountable and largely irreversible.
When future historians will try to explain this decline, the vile role that Darwin and Marx played in that demise will be highlighted, just as the role of Aristotle and Newton is highlighted in contemporary histories of Western Civilization.
