capitalistic-theocratic

Updated: June 21, 2025

Is it not clear that things had taken an altogether unexpected turn that although the Ring may, like the famous Communist Manifesto of Marx and Engels, be an inspired guest at the historic laws and predestined end of our capitalistic-theocratic epoch, yet Wagner, like Marx, was too inexperienced in technical government and administration and too melodramatic in his hero-contra-villain conception of the class struggle, to foresee the actual process by which his generalization would work out, or the part to be played in it by the classes involved?

Bernard Shaw - The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring