The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political parties. Without these freedoms and rights, there is no motivation for people to work. Such a system cannot be sustained, especially in light of the technological revolution of the information era.
Mikhail GorbachevDemocracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
Mikhail GorbachevFurther global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.
Mikhail Gorbachev