Speaking in "Perestroika," which our media intentionally misled America into believing was an abandonment of Communism, Mikhail Gorbachev tells the truth straight out: "Those who treat Marxism dogmatically and pedantically cannot understand its central point: its revolutionary dialectic. … Does perestroika mean that we are giving up socialism or at least some of its foundation? Some ask this question with hope, others with misgiving … Perestroika is closely connected with socialism as a system."
Mikhail Gorbachev, "Perestroika," p. 36.

And again in his 70th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution speech in 1987, titled, "Perestroika" he adds this blatant warning that our leftist press and establishment controlled State Department ignored: "In October 1917 we parted with the old world, rejecting it once and for all. We are moving towards a new world, the world of communism. We shall never turn off that world."

Interestingly, Mr. Gorbachev became an instrument of radical environmentalism, a strong advocate of the U.N., and even took up resident in San Francisco on a U.S. military base that had been one of many shut down - ironically, because the Russians were "no longer our enemies," and the Cold War was over - after stepping down from the Presidency in Soviet Union. Conscious of the power of symbolic gestures, such as the above, Gorbachev's first two visits to the U.S. were scheduled for December 7th, though weather or some other event ran interference on the second occasion, forcing him to show up a few days later.

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