Civilization is by its nature pragmatical. The popularity of pragmatism in America, the classical land of civilization, need cause no surprise. But the pragmatical and utilitarian approach of Capitalism had been the real source of atheism and spiritual bankruptcy. The useful and practically effective god of Capitalism cannot be the true God. He can be easily unmasked.
Socialism is negatively right.
The God of religious revelations and symbolic culture had long vanished from capitalist civilization, just as it had receded from Him. The capitalist system is sowing the seeds of its own destruction by sapping the spiritual foundation of man's economic life. Labour loses all spiritual purpose and justification and, as a result, brings an indictment against the whole system. Civilization is powerless to realize its dream of everlasting aggrandizement. The tower of Babylon will remain unfinished.