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According to Furio Jesi, right-wing culture is characterized by the mystification of its own power and violence onto a mythic source of being. It functions as a mythological machine that produces symbolic images and narratives which evoke the secret existence of a 'myth’, hidden behind the impenetrable walls of history and language, which puts mythologies in motion and which demands sacrifices in the name of its continuous renewal. Humanism, on the other hand, denies the existence of myth but claims that human beings are the origin of the stories they tell themselves about their place in the universe. In this article, I argue that, for Jesi, humanism risks falling prey to the mythological machine if it approaches the right-wing technification of myth as a monstrous enemy to be destroyed in order to save humanity. He sees this cunning mechanism at work in the humanist individualism of his teacher, Károly Kerényi, but also in the collective Spartakus revolt of 1919. Overcome with the fear of technified myth and with the melancholic realization that human projects will eternally have shortcomings, both the bourgeois humanist and the revolting collective remain dependent on a non-human force that limits the scope of what they can hope to achieve, that lures them into (self-)sacrifice, and that ultimately incites them to defend or reinforce the status quo. Jesi, then, proposes to consider the emptiness of the mythological machine not as a threat but as the condition that makes collective human intervention in mythological narratives possible, and thus as the possibility to truly combat the right-wing fascination with myth.