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When it comes to destroying and humiliating Russian geniuses, the West and the Soviet Union are one. p. 103

— Alexander Zinoviev Para Bellum (1987)

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Perestroika is nothing but a spectacle organized from above.

Gorbachevism (1988)

Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective laws of human society.

Gorbachevism (1988)

None of the Marxist concepts (literally – not a single one!) matches the logical rules of scientific concepts.

On the Social State of Marxism (1978)

The firmest proof that Marxism is not science but an ideology is Marxism’s attitude to the experience of the real communist (or socialist) societies.

On the Social State of Marxism (1978)

We can consider that the era we have just entered is not only post-communist but also post-democratic.

The Global Suprasociety and Russia (2000)

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