The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction. - Jawaharlal Nehru

Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
The way you play it is free will.

..There will be the direct weakening effect, but much worse will be the inner psychological conflict between those who wish to reunite her and those who oppose this. New vested interest will be created which will resist change and progress, a new evil Karma will pursue us in the future. One wrong step leads to another; so it has been in the past and so it may be in the future. And yet wrong steps have to be taken sometimes lest some worse peril befall us; that is the great paradox of politics, and no man can say with surety whether present wrong-doing is better and safer in the end than the possibility of that imagined peril.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.