Christopher Hitchens in the April edition of The Atlantic here:
[Communism was] compelled to educate and train people up to a certain level. But beyond that level, it forbade them to think, or to inquire, or to use their initiative. Thus, while it created a vast amount of “surplus consciousness,” it could find no way of employing this energy except by squandering and dissipating and ultimately repressing it.
An earlier reference to Hitchens here.
