“... First of all, I would like to dwell on a very characteristic and typical crisis of the Renaissance in socialism. Socialism is of great importance; it occupies a large place in the life of the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. This is a phenomenon not only in economic life, but also in the fate of European culture, a revelation of internal processes within it. I will consider socialism as a holistic phenomenon, as a phenomenon of the spirit, and not in any specifically economic sense. And all the foundations of such integral socialism are deeply opposed to the foundations of the Renaissance. ..."