Culture Destroyed

This culture, as Eliot defines it, is being destroyed not only by American capitalism as N.G. would have us believe, but by the fact that religious faith is declining more rapidly than ever before, that government planning and nursery schools are smashing the family group, that social barriers are being hurled down everywhere, and the last islands of regional diversity corrupted by mass communication and the passion for mass education.

Why this insistence on Eliot ? The Marxist realises that Eliot is the Grand Cham of contemporary poetry and critical work. He is a symbol which, if it is successfully attacked undermines the culture of the West in this century.