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The Decline of the West - Part 2: Perspectives of World History with David Engels

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The End of Western Civilization

For spengler, the ultimate aim of western civilization is caesarism andand the empire. And that explains also how he sees modern democracies as a form of organization of an essentially plutocratic and oligarchic society. He still hoped, out of patriotism, that this final closing empire of the western civilization would be borne by germany, rather than by uk. For him, there were only two alternatives left,. As spain and france were more less spent culturally r because they had already spent all their energy in france  in the eighteenth and seventeenth century spain and the sixteenth h Century sow.

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