THE sad, depressing affair of Elián González has brought to light the following unpleasant truth, among many others: that so long as Communism is with us, so also will be the Useful Idiots—-those members of Western intellectual elites who can find nothing bad to say about the totalitarian order.
Useful Idiocy has a long and ignoble pedigree. Studying at Cambridge immediately after the Russian Revolution, Vladimir Nabokov was dismayed to find a majority of his classmates pro-Bolshevik. Ten years later Sidney and Beatrice Webb were asking:
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