The disease of our time is mediocrity. - Alexander Zinoviev

the mathematical modeling of social phenomena only makes sense and can only give a positive result under one condition: if the modelers have at their disposal a scientific theory of the objects modeled. The model is not a theory, the model is only one of the means.

Intending to improve the economic situation, the Gorbachevites put the economy itself into a state of crisis. p. 108

The one-party system does not come from an error or bad design, it is, on the contrary, perfectly normal, because our society does not have ONE party, it is WITHOUT a party. p. 115-116