Sometimes - history needs a push.
Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.
For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.
Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.