[HN Gopher] Second Thoughts on James Burnham (1946)
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       Second Thoughts on James Burnham (1946)
        
       Author : allthebest
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2023-05-08 05:15 UTC (17 hours ago)
        
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       | muxator wrote:
       | > Power can sometimes be won or maintained without violence, but
       | never without fraud, because it is necessary to make use of the
       | masses, and the masses would not co-operate if they knew that
       | they were simply serving the purposes of a minority.
        
       | voldacar wrote:
       | >It was only after the Soviet regime became unmistakably
       | totalitarian that English intellectuals, in large numbers, began
       | to show an interest in it. Burnham, although the English
       | russophile intelligentsia would repudiate him, is really voicing
       | their secret wish: the wish to destroy the old, equalitarian
       | version of Socialism and usher in a hierarchical society where
       | the intellectual can at last get his hands on the whip.
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       | This is an interesting insight. It seems to apply to Klaus Schwab
       | / the NGO-academic-media complex pretty accurately.
        
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