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

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

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.

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

War may break out unexpectedly. Wars are not declared, nowadays. They simply start.

We Marxists believe that a revolution will also take place in other countries. But it will take place only when the revolutionaries in those countries think it possible, or necessary. The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country will make its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.

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