Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within.
The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.