• We still find, especially in parts of academe, the damaging notion that everything is a struggle for power, or being empowered, or hegemony, or oppression: and that all competition is a zero-sum game. This is not more than repetition of Lenin's destructive doctrine. Intellectually, it is reductionism; politically, it is fanaticism.

    Robert Conquest: We still find, especially in parts of academe, the damaging notion that everything is a struggle for power, or being empowered, or hegemony, or oppression:  and that all competition is a zero-sum game.  This is not more than repetition of Lenin's destructive doctrine.  Intellectually, it is reductionism; politically, it is fanaticism.