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  • It would be grossly unfair to suggest that power worship is the only motive for russophile feeling, but it is one motive, and among intellectuals it is probably the strongest one.

    Some Thoughts For Washington Generals “Conservatives” - Dan_McLaughlin’s blog - RedState 2009

  • Although it is not the kind of tribute that the average russophile would consider acceptable, and although Burnham himself would probably claim that he is being strictly objective, he is in effect performing an act of homage, and even of self-abasement.

    James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution 1946

  • Burnham, although the English russophile intelligentsia would repudiate him, is really voicing their secret wish: the wish to destroy the old, equalitarian version of Socialism and usher in a hierarchical society where the intellectual can at last get his hands on the whip.

    James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution 1946

  • It would be grossly unfair to suggest that power worship is the only motive for russophile feeling, but it is one motive, and among intellectuals it is probably the strongest one.

    James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution 1946

  • If one examines the people who, having some idea of what the Russian régime is like, are strongly russophile, one finds that, on the whole, they belong to the “managerial” class of which Burnham writes.

    James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution 1946

  • When it comes to such issues as Poland, the Baltic countries, Jugoslavia or Greece, what difference is there between the russophile press and the extreme Tory press?

    As I Please 1945

  • If one examines the people who, having some idea of what the Russian r間ime is like, are strongly russophile, one finds that, on the whole, they belong to the “managerial” class of which Burnham writes.

    Collected Essays 1900

  • Burnham, although the English russophile intelligentsia would repudiate him, is really voicing their secret wish: the wish to destroy the old, equalitarian version of Socialism and usher in a hierarchical society where the intellectual can at last get his hands on the whip.

    Collected Essays 1900

  • Although it is not the kind of tribute that the average russophile would consider acceptable, and although Burnham himself would probably claim that he is being strictly objective, he is in effect performing an act of homage, and even of self-abasement.

    Collected Essays 1900

  • It would be grossly unfair to suggest that power worship is the only motive for russophile feeling, but it is one motive, and among intellectuals it is probably the strongest one.

    Collected Essays 1900

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