The dissident movement in Russia, despite everything, remains compliant with the regime. It is a diet product. For my part, I stay outside of this wh… - Alexander Zinoviev

Ideological brainwashing constitutes the essence and foundation of the formation of the Soviet man. […]. As part of ideological training, people learn to “correctly” interpret the phenomena that they are comforted with in their lives. […] This is not a question of stupidity. The ideological man thus trained does not become stupid. rather, it is the opposite effect that takes place. p. 638

This way that petty-bourgeois minds confuse their subjective assessments with the objective situation goes so far that the majority of notions used in conversations about social problems have currently lost their scientific character to become simple expressions of estimation. . p. 37

None of the Marxist concepts (literally – not a single one!) matches the logical rules of scientific concepts.