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Ernst Bloch and Joachim of Fiore

On the whole, Ernst Bloch's work is a failed attempt to consider the "revolution in the West" as an imported version of the Soviet model. In fact, his very thorough cultural-historical reconstruction is a function of an interpretation of communism as a radical break with European culture, of which only the mystic, irrational, chiliastic elements forgotten by centuries of rationalism and materialism are worth saving. This is why Joachim of Fiore is significant in Bloch's works. Bloch regarded the 12th century prophet as the first theoretician of that mixture of irrationalism, mysticism and apocalypse necessary to develop an alternative to...