From a Prison Diary

No one is as stupid as a democrat turned imperialist or a revolutionary turned reactionary. When that happens the concepts get all mixed up. Just as it happens to each individual when his ideas come into conflict with the real trends of development, so also it happens to each movement. Desires, traditions and ideas either give in to developments or they are crushed by them.

For dogmatic—and not only dogmatic—reasons, we Communists proclaimed that the normal human concepts and ethic...