Anti-quantitative philistinism of pre-scientific intelligentsia leads to social-imperialism, fascism and leadership cults This reminds me of what Lenin said about how the reactionary ruling classes have need of two functions: the hangman and the priest. Well, now, they also have the bombing and the polls. They have the bombs to kill you with and the polls to tell you what you're supposed to think. Boob A April 21 2002 Never in the the history of humynkind were numbers so popular. Sanatorium reality is flooded with numbers. . . . Special organizations every day probe public opinion on various different questions. Ex-Maoist, fascist E Limonov in Disciplinary Sanatorium (1993) MLM [Marxism-Leninism-Maoism--ed.] isn't accounting and figures. --"Amol" supporting the rąp=u$a (2002) The most famous Chief Accountant in human history was, of course, monseigneur Karl Marx. The fact that the creator of the latest ideology was a professional economist determined the numerical crowdedness of modern times. . . . Capitalism, no doubt, got healthier in struggle with it's sect -- Marxism, and, possibly, owes it it's own survival. Ex-Maoist, fascist E Limonov in Disciplinary Sanatorium (1993)