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Combating Modernity: Piccone and the Role of Tradition in the Present Age

For the past two hundred years, the Left has not shown much fondness for tradition. By and large, traditions have been seen as parochial and backward. Stemming as they do from earlier times, they have mostly been viewed as "cultural lags" no longer appropriate to the present, and therefore hindrances to progressive change. The best way to deal with traditions, the Left often has said, is to sweep them away, eradicate them, consign them to the proverbial dustbin of history.

One finds this point of view not only in Marx ("the legacy of the dead generations weighs like a nightmare...