Capitalism and British imperialism have exploited the world; and what I fear is that the only form of capitalism you could have would be a military form of capitalism, like Pinochet’s in Chile.

Excerpts from a diary entry (29 October 1991), as cited in TONY BENN Free at Last! Diaries 1991 -2001 Edited by Ruth Winstone, Published by Arrow Books in 2003, p. 54. These were points that Benn made during a conversation with Alexei II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.