Much food for thought in this EC.
I have to wonder how much the industrial revolution has contributed to the 6 problems/propositions as outlined by Madiran. After all, society was mainly agrarian before the industrial revolution, and the population was less easily controlled, since many people were working for themselves, and/or working the land. With most of the population now working for someone else (corporations), the people are more easily controlled, because "things" have to be provided for them, like retirement, healthcare, a stable wage.
Hilaire Belloc believed that socialism/communism is a natural outcome of capitalism, or rather the type of capitalism that has been allowed to thrive for the last 200 years.
We are now controlled by corporations (news media, Hollywood, advertising, big stores, etc.). I don't think that Madiran's propositions could have come to fruition without the help of corporations telling us what to believe, and therefore replacing God.
Madiran's proposition #5 is so interesting in that it states that no other age before ours has ever been able to better grasp the Gospel ideal of brotherhood practised. IMO, this sums up Modernism quite well.