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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, as Swift says, it is futile

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, as Swift says, 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 but a power-directed system of thought.

Roger Scruton

Philosophy, Believe, Political

"A Political Philosophy: Arguments for Conservatism". Book by Roger Scruton, 2006.

A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable

Roger Scruton

Philosophy, Believe, Doubt

Roger Scruton (2016). “Philosophy: Principles and Problems”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing

In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.

Roger Scruton

Philosophy, Mad, Half

Roger Scruton (2009). “The Roger Scruton Reader”, p.8, A&C Black

The problems of philosophy and the systems designed to solve them are formulated in terms which tend to refer, not to the realm of actuality, but to the realms of possibility and necessity: to what might be and what must be, rather than to what is.

Roger Scruton

Philosophy, Might, Problem

Roger Scruton (1982). “From Descartes to Wittgenstein: a short history of modern philosophy”, Harpercollins