David McDuff — I got it right this time — posts part 3 of his series Dragons and Democracy.

The new Utopianism, if such it can be called, consists mainly of a rejection of reason: while the socialists at least had arguments and a program, the new anticapitalists ???????seem to have sunk to a lower mental level.??????? There are roots and precedents and roots for this malaise. Conquest points to the emotionalism of postwar French intellectual life, when ???????much of the emotional drive had not come so much from a devotion to the proclaimed social transformation as from a hatred for the actual.??????? It was Camus who pointed out that French intellectuals did not so much adore Stalinism as they ???????heartily detest part of the French???????.