 Paradoxically, this also led to some on the Left failing to grasp "Arena"’s standpoint, representing it, too, as an expression of the post-structuralist wave.Increasingly, "Arena"’s arguments added up to a critique that was deep-cultural and/or ontological.As the USSR collapsed and capitalism was fully globalised, and as the environmental problem became compelling, it was becoming clear that a global system had developed to such a degree that its basic contradiction was of the possibility of meaningful life itself.