It Seems That The Most

It Sometimes Seems To Me That Some Of Our Western Partners Do Not Want Russia To Fully Recover. They Would Like Russia To Be In A Subdued State, And They Want Russian Resources To Be Used For The Benefit Of The U.s. Economy.

If People Don't Like Marxism, They Should Blame The British Museum.

What Happened To The Soviet Union Happened Mainly For Domestic Reasons. It Was A Failure Of The Model Based On A Command Economy And Dictatorship. The Rejection Of Freedom And Democracy, The Decisionmaking Monopoly Of One Party, And The Monopoly Of One Ideology All Had A Chilling Effect On The Country. That Model Turned Out To Be Incapable Of Making Structural Changes. It Did Not Open Up Ways For Initiative And Was Overly Centralized.

According To Lenin, Socialism And Democracy Are Indivisible.... The Essence Of Perestroika Lies In The Fact That It Unites Socialism With Democracy And Revives The Leninist Concept Of Socialist Construction Both In Theory And In Practice. We Want More Socialism And, Therefore, More Democracy.

You Are Fortunate To Live Here. If I Were Your President, I Would Levy A Tax On You For Living In San Francisco!