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When I first began to write on revolution a well-known London publisher said to me, "Remember that if you
take an anti-revolutionary line you will have the whole literary world against you." This appeared to me ex-
traordinary. Why would the literary world sympathize with a movement which from the French Revolution
onwards has always been directed against literature, art, and science, and has openly proclaimed its aim to
exalt the manual workers over the intelligentsia? "Writers must be proscribed as the most dangerous en-
emies of the people," said Robespierre; his colleague Dumas said all clever men should be guillotined. "The
system of persecution against man of talents was organized.... They cried out in the sections [of Paris], 'Beware of that man for he has written a book !' "(1) Precisely the same policy has been followed in Russia.
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