“To insiders, it was a “scientific” worldview that enabled its possessors to rid themselves and others of all kinds of prejudice and superstition – and incidentally master an aggressive debating style characterized by generous use of sarcasm about the motives and putative “class essence” of opponents.”

“To insiders, it was a “scientific” worldview that enabled its possessors to rid themselves and others of all kinds of prejudice and superstition – and incidentally master an aggressive debating style characterized by generous use of sarcasm about the motives and putative “class essence” of opponents.”

— Sheila Fitzpatrick