Mariana V. Rosser e J. Barkley Jr., Comparative Economics in a Transforming World Economy, MIT Press, 23 luglio 2003, p. 14., ISBN 978-0-262-18234-8.
«Ironically, the ideological father of communism, Karl Marx, claimed that communism entailed the withering away of the state. The dictatorship of the proletariat was to be a strictly temporary phenomenon. Well aware of this, the Soviet Communists never claimed to have achieved communism, always labeling their own system socialist rather than communist and viewing their system as in transition to communism.»
