Rush to Judgment

This government will not content itself with administering and governing the masses politically, as all governments do today. It will also administer the masses economically, concentrating in the hands of the State the production and division of wealth, the cultivation of land. . . . All this will demand . . . the reign of scientific intelligence, the most aristocratic, despotic, arrogant, and elitist of all regimes. There will be a new class, a new hierarchy . . . the world will be divided into a minority ruling in the name of knowledge, and an ignorant majority. And then, woe unto the mass of ignorant ones!

From Rush Limbaugh, describing the Obama administration? No, from “the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, Marx’s archrival in the First International, describ[ing] the political life of the future that Marx had in mind” [quoted on pages 108–109 of David Horowitz’s The Politics of Bad Faith.]