The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge. A Political Philosophy (2006)
Why is it after a century of socialist disasters, and an intellectual legacy that has been time and again exploded, the left-wing position remains, as it were, the default position to which thinking people gravitate when called upon for a comprehensive philosophy? Why are "right-wingers" marginalised in the educational system, denounced in the media and regarded by our political class as untouchable, fit only to clean up after the orgies of luxurious nonsense indulged in by their moral superiors? Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left (2015)