"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
"The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes."
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Source: Edmund Wilson (1951). “Memoirs of Hecate County”
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