'Brains ravaged by anti-social and mindless pleasures,' how it was put by a favourite writer and thinker of mine lately, were the architects of these systems.

But for others, this idea risks flattening individual responsibility until its disappearance, something from which, strangely, the officials of communist totalitarianism benefited more, implicitly I would say.

I had a similar thought the other day. Do you think this might be why marxism is more generally accepted by the status quo of institutions?