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"The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform."
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"A democracy of mean and ignorant people is just as scary as any other horrible form of government."

"All my years campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still, I realize this fully only by looking back."

"Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times."

"To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true."

"The freest societies are in a constant state of revolution."
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"Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history."

"Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy."

"Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces."

"This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces."

"What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest."

"Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale."

"I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung."

"I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence."

"The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization."

"But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party."
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