“In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of the economic order are conflicting directly with those of the political order. But the crisis is happening not in the . . . West, but in the home of Marxism-Leninism, the Soviet Union. It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.”
![“It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history, as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.” quote by Ronald Reagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/521/ronald-reagan-119_ashes_it-is-the-soviet-union-that-runs-against_2608693.jpg)
![“For [Karl] Marx it is socialist society which realizes "concretely" the religious principles of equality, brotherly love, and freedom.” quote by Erich Fromm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4d1/erich-fromm-367_brotherly_for-karl-marx-it-is-socialist-society-wh_1426546.jpg)
