“My life’s work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.”
Mikhail Gorbachev (1931) General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The Observer [London] (15 December 1991)
1990s
“The machine itself has begun to do the work of revolution. The State is now generating forces that will accomplish what no revolutionaries could accomplish by themselves.”
Source: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter VIII : The Machine Begins To Self-Destruct, p. 189-190
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