“Like every primitive religion, Marxism (government as god) is haunted by imaginary devils. ‘Capitalism’, ‘imperialism’, ‘deviationism’, ‘revisionism’, ‘infantile leftism’, ‘fascism.’...
“It is not the truth of Marxism that explains the willingness of intellectuals to believe it, but the power that it confers on intellectuals in their attempts to control the world. And since… it is futile to reason someone out of a thing that he was not reasoned...