He writes that the Neocons moved "from the paranoid left to the paranoid right" after emerging from the anti-Stalinist far left in the late 1930s and early 1940s. They had discovered that capitalism suited their aims better than socialism but they remained consistent in those aims, which were to prevail over the Russian regime and dominate the world economically and militarily. They succeeded on the Russian front when the Soviet economy finally collapsed in 1989.