“The democratic revolution is the necessary preparation for the socialist revolution, and the socialist revolution is the inevitable sequel to the democratic revolution. The ultimate aim for which all communists strive is to bring about a socialist and communist society.”
“The Chinese Revolution and the Chinese Communist Party” (December 1939), Selected Works, Vol. II, pp. 330-31. *

Whittaker Chambers said the same essentially. More importantly Solzhenitsyn likewise
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That’s a very broad brush!
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