When Did Our Elites Become Self-Serving Parasites?

[Paul Rigby]

I note the quote by Arnold Toynbee who, unfortunately, became a member of the elite in the form of being a leading member of the Rhodes-Milner kindergarten.

Lauren, I'd personally love an objective and independent study / essay about the Russian and Chinese elite. The problem will be, I think, finding one that is not tainted by western values and western propaganda. But if you can find one, please post it.

All true about Toynbee, but worth noting that he went rogue in the mid- to late-50s, describing America as the leader of world counter-revolution in a series of lectures in, I dimly recall 1960 or 61. He fell so out of line that the CIA, presumably with the acquiescence of Dick White, his friend, ally & great spook patron, set Hugh Trevor-Ropey upon him in the pages of Encounter (and elsewhere).

HTR subsequently was set to the improbable work of Dallas coup sceptic and champion of Mark Lane. Now there hangs a tale!

American and the World Revolution (New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1962), comprised of three sets of three lectures delivered at the University of Pennsylvania, McGill University, and the University of Puerto Rico, respectively, in 1961 and 1962.

p.91: "America is today the leader of a world-wide anti-revolutionary movement in defence of vested interests. She now stands for what Rome stood for..."

p.211: "The paramount aim of the people of the US is the protection of their own vested interests, and they are not concerned for social justice except in so far as this can be made to serve a purpose that is, in truth, the opposite of what social justice stands for."

In support of a Test Ban treaty and world government, among other things:

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