What is left is a technique of subversion and a collection of catch-phrases. The former, the technique of subversion, is still dangerous. British Prime Ministers have had reason to speak with some passion about terrorism in recent years. As for the catch-phrases of Marxism, they still have a certain drawing power. But they have none in the countries which are ruled by the principles of Marx.
Communist regimes can no longer conceal the gulf that separates their slogans from reality.
The immediate threat from the Soviet Union is military rather than ideological. The threat is not only to our security in Europe and North America but also, both directly and by proxy, in the third world. I have often spoken about the military challenge which the West faces today. Let me, therefore, restate a few simple propositions. The Soviet Union continues to proclaim the ideological, struggle.