American democracy and the Soviet system may peacefully exist side by side and compete with each other. But one cannot evolve into the other.

Capitalism, in its imperialist phase, is a system which considers war to be a legitimate instrument for settling international disputes, a legal method in fact, if not in law.

...the transition from capitalism to Socialism and the liberation of the working class from the yoke of capitalism cannot be effected by slow changes, by reforms, but only by a qualitative change of the capitalist system, by revolution. Hence, in order not to err in policy, one must be a revolutionary, not a reformist.

Of course, Soviet people would like to see the face of surrounding states changed, but that is the business of the surrounding states.

Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.

It would be quite wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for the activities of American Communists.

It was not Soviet people who formed the American Communist Party.