Scruton on Totalitarianism

“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 into, we can conclude that Marxism owes its remarkable power to survive every criticism to the fact that it is not a truth-directed system of thought, but a power-directed one.” Adapted, A Political Philosophy, Roger Scruton (1944 – 2020)