4. THE HISTORICAL ROLE OE THE ARTS AND AMBIENCES IN THE REVOLUTIONARY PROCESS

            For this reason, in point of fact, it must be recognized that the general democratization of customs and life-styles, carried to the extremes of a systematic and growing vulgarity, and the proletarianizing action of certain modern art contributed to the triumph of egalitarianism as much as or more than the enacting of certain laws or the establishing of certain essentially political institutions.

            It also must be recognized that if a person managed, for example, to put a stop to immoral or agnostic movies or television programs, he would have done much more for the Counter-Revolution than ~{ in the course of the everyday proceedings of a parliamentary regime, he had brought about the fall of a leftist cabinet.