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their ambitions for goods and income, and thus are constantly defeat-
ed by communism. Even though they see that they will be swallowed
by the communist thinking, the vast majority becomes blind because of
their greed for possessions and earthly desires, and thus they lose their
defensive reflexes. It is as Lenin once sarcastically remarked, "The cap-
italists will sell us the rope with which we shall hang them." That envi-
ronment is the most suitable environment for communists to take

action.

Communism Covertly Continues Its Existence

As a result of the "one step forward, two steps back" strategy, com-
munism still covertly maintains its existence. Especially in Russia,
where the entire leadership of the government and the bureaucracy
consists of former communists. Those people, who are well-trained in
dialectic materialism, have not given up their dreams about
communism. On the contrary, those who believe that
communism requires a passage through a capitalist stage

are merely looking on as capitalism is practiced, in order to
realize the necessity of becoming a "communist." Because
they are real communists, they are practicing
and advocating capitalism at the moment.

This is the situation today not only
in Russia but in many parts of the
world. In almost every country of
Europe, communist parties maintain
their existence and moreover in some
countries, they are getting a quite decent

share of the electorate. In almost
every country of the for-

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