Marshal Berman’s Faust story is related with the processes that took place at the end of the eighteenth century and the start of the nineteenth, “When a distinctively modern world-system came into being”. Psychic liberation is linked with the historical process of modernization. But it is assessed as destructive, demonic powers and "only if Faust works with and through these destructive powers will he be able to create anything in the world”.
Faust as the developer connects his personal drives with the economic, political and social forces that drive the world. The world created by the Faust’s project, is socialist. Faustian visions express radical and utopian dreams of Goethe’s time such as socialism. At the same time, it is not linked with one historical moment or any particular historical situation, Faust is universal as “superman”. He brings material, technical and spiritual resources together in order to transform the reality. On the contrary, the pseudo-Faustian were the soviet projects during the Stalin years in that that they “retarded the reality of development”.
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