The Russian dictatorship of the proletariat has made a a farce of the whole
Marxist vision: developing a powerful, privileged ruling class to prepare for
a classless society, setting up the most despotic state in history so that the
state may wither away, establishing by force a colonial empire to combat
imperialism and unify the workers of the world.
-- Herbert J. Muller
We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid
of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men
and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that
most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an
ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean
and beg day and night continually....