I think it was extremely modernist, personally. The narrative, grandeur and mystical destiny make it more modernist than post-modernist. Like a lot of the late

I think it was extremely modernist, personally. The narrative, grandeur and mystical destiny make it more modernist than post-modernist. Like a lot of the late 19th/early 20th century ideologies, civilization was inevitably and imminently heading towards the eschaton. Society had to be reformed and restructured to bring about this glorious material utopia. It’s definitely about feelings and aesthetics, rather than economic or rational concerns though. You saw similar constructions in fringe communist regimes (Romania, North Korea)