Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (The Karla Trilogy, #1)

by John Le Carré

“In capitalist America economic repression of the masses is institutionalised to a point which not even Lenin could have foreseen . . . “The cold war began in 1917 but the bitterest struggles lie ahead of us, as America’s death-bed paranoia drives her to greater excesses abroad

He spoke not of the decline of the West, but of its death by greed and constipation.