"Socialism is not a movement of the people.

It is a movement of the intellectuals, originated, led and controlled by the intellectuals, carried by them out of their stuffy ivory towers into those bloody fields of practice where they unite with their allies and executors: the thugs.

What, then, is the motive of such intellectuals?

Power-lust as a manifestation of helplessness, of self-loathing and of the desire for the unearned."

--Ayn Rand