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  Conclusion

 We have completed, or else begun, our consideration of the place of the classic left in relation to the eonic history generated by the eonic sequence, hopefully in the process showing both the significance, and yet limits, of conventional leftist (usually Marxist) discourse. In a way we need a dose of  someone like Marx to properly evaluate our eonic sequence, for a simple reason: our model in general speaks of the 'eonic observer' attempting, despite his immersion in the history he wishes to recount, attempting to discover and describe the eonic effect, and this requires more than just the realization of the outcome of the modern transition, but more the amplification of self-consciousness to an objectivity about the circumstances of that sudden mechanization of outcomes in the wake of the greater action of the macro level. Notable is the sluggish undertow that we see in the sudden conservatizing of the realizations of modern freedom in the ideology of classical liberalism, no doubt due to the sudden gigantism of the grafting of capitalism onto liberalism. This realization might not do justice to the full potential of the transition, thence the demands from the left of critique. Here the attempt to both analyze and realize the outcomes of revolutionary modernity find their expression in the figures of the age of Marx's youth, in the confusions of the revolutions 1848. We can't exclude this consideration, even as we avail ourselves of a truly potent model for the explication of liberal emergentism. We have a true powerhorse of theory at our fingertips, but it comes with a price, that of a balanced assessment of the totality of modernist emergentism, and beyond that of the greater eonic sequence constituting evolutionary Civilization in the throes now of post-transitional globalization.  

Although the radical Marxist left can be seen via the basic matrix of eonic periodization as post-transitional operatives, they arise just at the boundary between the transition of macro to micro action and remain of intrinsic interest, and not just historically. Lest this be a designation of 'Johnny come latelies' we should demand a thorough study of first moments in the modern transition, and not just that of Lutheran Reformers, those prophetic anticipations of the bourgeoisie, but of Thomas Munzer, that Zoroastrian hothead about the business of class struggle, at the dawn of modernity. We are left with the endgame, and a Marxist question, did the modern transition fulfill its potential? Did the gestures toward the equalization of the whole result in a success, or, as with the fate of the Munzer himself, end in the restoration of the dominant classes? We have but to compare the English Civil War with the 'revolution' of 1688 to consider the difference and a possibly ominous answer to our question. In perfect symmetry, figures such as Munzer at the start and Marx and Engels at the end, induce a mysterious echo effect, and we should come to the conclusion with that question raised at the beginning, which leaves us with a need to challenge our depiction of evolutionary emergentism with its own implications, the  possible deficit of macro and micro action.