The credulous vein of leftism - with its religious connotations,

The politics of rupture are too suspicious of the present, this vein of leftism can be too credulous of it. one cannot extend existing values to new social groups without seeing them transformed in the process. 

Socialism has its ‘continuist’ strand, acknowledging its indebtedness to a precious heritage of popular sentiments and middle-class liberalism without which any socialist order is likely to be stillborn. But it has its Modernist or avant-garde dimension as well, envisaging as it does a transfigured human individual whom the language of the present cannot encompass.  This has religious connotations,