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

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

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.

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.

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.