I speak not only of the men and women on the platform with me, but of you in the audience. However, one cannot overlook the fact that many who should be with us are not yet among those present. There has been a great scurrying into corners, a great ostrich-like burying of heads in the sand, a great donning of the mantle of the rationale . As if to say, this is only a little bit of fascism , a little bit of tyranny, a little bit of degradation.
Freedom is a whole and a singular thing.
And precisely for this reason, that in the Communist Party is enshrined the future and the hope of mankind. I am tired of evasion and double-talk on this issue. There is no nobler, no finer product of man's existence on this earth than the Communist Party. At its worst, it is better than the best that this rotten and dying ruling class of ours has brought forth. At its best, it contains within it the future and the hopes and the dreams of plain people everywhere.