Old-line Marxists claimed [falsely] that they were champions of reason, that
socialism or communism was a scientific social system, that an advanced
technology could not function in a capitalist society, but required a
scientifically planned and organized human community to bring its maximum
benefits to every man, in the form of material comforts and a higher standard
of living . . . . [T]oday we see the spectacle of old Marxists
blessing, aiding and abetting the young hoodlums [of the New Left] (who are
their products and heirs) who proclaim the superiority of feelings over reason,
of faith over knowledge, of leisure over production, of spiritual concerns over
material comforts, of primitive nature over technology, of astrology over
science, of drugs over consciousness.