The mentality of the English left-wing intelligentsia can be studied in half a dozen weekly and monthly papers. The immediately striking thing about all these papers is their generally negative querulous attitude, their complete lack at all times of any constructive suggestion. There is little in them except the irresponsible carping of people who have never been and never expect to be in a position of power. During the past twenty years the negative fainéant outlook which has been fashionable among the English left-wingers, the sniggering of the intellectuals at patriotism and physical
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