The most important one was the belief, which went back to Lenin, that capitalists would never be able to cooperate with one another for very long. Their inherent greediness – the irresistible urge to place profits above politics – would sooner or later prevail, leaving communists with the need only for patience as they awaited their adversaries’ self-destruction.
-John Lewis Gaddis
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