The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa.
When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
To assert that we desire to bring about revolution in other countries, by interfering with their lives, is to speak of something which does not exist and which we never preach.
Only when we succeed in creating such an order under which people receive for their labor from the society not according to the quantity and quality of labor, but according to their needs, will it be possible to say that we have built up a communist society.