[The Communist's] objective is not to secure ‘agreements' or ‘compromises,' but to use the tribunes of governments for disruptive agitation, and destroy the representative system from within... Any Communist, sitting in any ‘bourgeoisie' government, represents only the Communist International. (Dorothy Thompson)

[The Communist's] objective is not to secure ‘agreements' or ‘compromises,' but to use the tribunes of governments for disruptive agitation, and destroy the representative system from within... Any Communist, sitting in any ‘bourgeoisie' government, represents only the Communist International.

Dorothy Thompson

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