A thought on greed...

""You have to understand that what we had in our country wasn't socialism. It was totalitarianism. I always knew that, but I believed - foolishly - that is was just the first step. Marx talked about it. The Dictatorship of the Proletariat. It's supposed to be a transitional phase. You control the economy and adjust it in preparation for pure communism. It looks good on paper," he said, smiling. "It really does. But Marx was as naïve as I was. He thought greed would lose its power when people were faced with the possibility of utopia. It took me a long time to see the mistake..."" - Brano Oleksy Sev in Victory Square by Olen Steinhauer