The fall of Communism was an opportunity to create more effective global political institutions based on democratic principles - institutions that could stop what appears to be, in its current form, the self-destructive tendency of our industrial world. If we do not want to be overrun by anonymous forces, the principles of freedom, equality and solidarity - the foundation of stability and prosperity in Western democracies - must start working globally.
共产主义的垮台是在民主原则的基础上建立更加有效的全球政治制度——一种能够遏止我们的工业化世界当前似乎具有的自毁趋势的制度的机会。如果我们不想被无名的力量践踏，那么，自由、平等和团结的原则——西方民主的稳定和繁荣的基础——就必须在全球范围内发挥作用。