Of Liberal Humanism - and Capitalism

"When capitalism slumps, one of its dominant ideological structures - liberal humanism is regularly deflected into an idealist brand of Marxism. When capitalism recovers, liberal humanism disentangles itself from its materialist trappings and resumes its proper role as the impotent conscience of bourgeois society."

"First-class Fellow travelling: The Poetry of W.H. Auden"
Terry Eagleton
Professor, University of Oxford, Manchester, Notre Dame, Yale