In his book "Men Among the Ruins" Evola attempts to propose a philosophical basis for the post-war world, and it contains a chapter, "The Demonic Nature of the Economy", in which he rejects the materialist foundation of modern society and the fixation on

In his book "Men Among the Ruins" Evola attempts to propose a philosophical basis for the post-war world, and it contains a chapter, "The Demonic Nature of the Economy", in which he rejects the materialist foundation of modern society and the fixation on the economy bound up with it. Why do so few people read and discuss him today?

In brief, he is preoccupied with the problem that we live in an age in which the economy has ceased to be a private factor and has become the decisive principle of the whole of life.

It follows that if economic interest strives to subordinate all other interests and values to itself, then a human being begins to be valued solely in terms of his productive and economic function.

Just as in our own day, when the economy has shed its subordination to higher, inner principles and acquired an autonomous and almost demonic character. In essence, both capitalism and Marxism proceed from one and the same materialist assumption: as though the economic factor were primary and determined everything else. The result is a civilisation in which politics, culture and even forms of spiritual life are reduced to functions of production, labour and consumption.

What can one say: such a society moves towards an ever greater enslavement of the individual, towards the loss of the ordinary man's autonomy and towards the dominion over every sphere of life of anonymous forces that the simple person no longer controls