Secondly there is the fact that the intellectuals are more totalitarian in outlook than the common people. On the whole the English intelligentsia ha… - George Orwell

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Secondly there is the fact that the intellectuals are more totalitarian in outlook than the common people. On the whole the English intelligentsia have opposed Hitler, but only at the price of accepting Stalin. Most of them are perfectly ready for dictatorial methods, secret police, systematic falsification of history etc. so long as they feel that it is on ‘our’ side.