That the Communist offensive is more successful, more skillful than democracy's resistance will be seen by history as just another example of one power outmaneuvering another. But it is less natural and more novel that the stricken civilization should not only be deeply convinced of the rightness of its own defeat, but that it should regale its friends and foes with reasons why defending itself would be immoral and, in any event, superfluous, useless, even dangerous. Jean-Francis Revel, How Democracies Perish.
