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most a word he uses like everyone else because its fashionable, or it is used to get money from the West.
“He is good person to drink beer with, but he is not up to this job.
“Our current leaderhsip is pathetic. They are only for themselves. They have little practical knowledge, and some have this religious belief in ‘democracy’ but only as an abstraction. They have little understanding of the world.
“I was invited to China recently. At first I didn’t want to go, but I’m glad I did. They are doing very impressive things in China, and managing their reform process much better. Their leadership understood the improtance of changing gradually. People can’t change quickly who have been used to a totally different way of life. We should have followed the Chinese example.
“I was quite content under the old system. I had everything I needed. There was, of course, some party nonsense I had to put up with, but I learned how to get them to argue among themselves so my lab was left alone to do as it wanted.
“Communism should be a spiritual system, not a materialistic one. Its failure came from trying to compete on the basis of material success. Communism with a small ‘c,’ not failed Marxism, needs people who
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