One of the reasons for the rather low intellectual level of essays which criticize Soviet society and denounce its scourges is precisely poor ideolog… - Alexander Zinoviev

I am not for any ideology, I am for Man, for the Human being with a capital H, I am neither for socialism, nor for communism, nor for capitalism... . 142

I address every man, my writings seek to reach what is human in every living being. p. 143

The whole problem, currently, is to have a method of understanding, says the Fool. People have information in spades, but they are incapable of extracting truths that matter. They are content to live at a superficial level of very primary observation and generalization. No one is capable of deepening their analysis to the essential mechanisms of what is happening. However, such deepening obeys rules, which are not very complicated. 117