...a great army of the proletarian party [must be] prepared to smash the reactionary forces and to clear the way for the advanced forces of society.
It would be quite wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for the activities of American Communists.
It was not Soviet people who formed the American Communist Party.
American democracy and the Soviet system may peacefully exist side by side and compete with each other. But one cannot evolve into the other.
Of course Soviet people would like to see the face of surrounding states changed but that is the business of the surrounding states.
Capitalism in its imperialist phase is a system which considers war to be a legitimate instrument for settling international disputes a legal method in fact if not in law.
War may break out unexpectedly. Wars are not declared nowadays. They simply start.
It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person who goes about hungry and cannot find employment.