1984(6): The Inner Party

"The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organizers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists and professional politicians. These people, whose origins lay in the salaried middle class and the upper grades of the working class...

"As compared with their opposite numbers in past ages, they were less avaricious, less tempted by luxury, hungrier for pure power, and, above all, more conscious of what they were doing and more intent on crushing opposition".

I tell you, George Orwell may have written that sixty years ago, but it is all so spot on, it is uncanny. He missed off 'lawyers' from the list, is all.