Roger Scruton: Why Intellectuals are Mostly Left

Why not add a footnote lecture here with references in the archives of Marxism to " The Treason of the Intellectuals " and " Intellectual in Retreat " ( from any " dangerous " cause too sympathetic to real SOCIALISM ? ). Shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917 ( before the Stalinist " betrayal " ) petty bourgeois public intellectuals were horrified by the militant Marxist leadership of Lenin and Trotsky ) . Even more than a century later talk of abolishing PRIVATE PROPERTY sets them to fear and trembling . Imagine taking this shocking idea seriously ! No puzzle why for decades pseudo-leftists have found a home in the pro-capitalist, pro-militarist, pro-Zionist WOKE WARRIOR Democratic Party . The "WOKE " is invariably a fatuous distraction and ideological detour away from CLASS STRUGGLE. The coming American Socialist Revolution will not be ignited by professorial philistines in Ivy League academia .