Thirty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall I am no longer a member of the working-class oppressed. Having failed as an economic system, Marxism has switched its focus to the cultural barricades of race, gender and general 'otherness'. These days, as I am given to understand, I am now a member of the privileged white heterosexual elite

Listen to the arts community's functionaries as they assail the Left's ever-changing roster of anointed enemies and you just might catch echoes of Comrade Stalin's lectures to the Bolsheviks. Like him, as Shostakovich would have recognised, our cultural Marxists pursue not art but power