1.2.2 The Central Role of the Economic
There have been three secular ‘prophets’ of modernity whose voices we need to listen to if we want to understand our contemporary world. These three are Marx, Freud and Nietzsche. Marx underlined the force of the economic drive in people. Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, argued that everything in the human being is controlled by his sexual drive. Finally, Nietzsche talked about the will to power that controls every human being on this earth. Because of the quasi-religious connotations of their thought- systems and of the totalitarian claims that they made, all three authors saw Christianity as the arch-enemy to be removed at all costs in order for the human being to be free to become what they thought he should become.







