The person who established communism was Karl Marx. He believed that there should be no such thing as lower or upper classes. In the document it says, “Once everyone owned all things in common, class distinction would be erased and the class struggle that marked human history since its beginnings would come to an end.” To me this shows his beliefs to be inspirational. Marx’s ideas could pose as a domestic threat through the Cold War, the McCarthyism Era, and the involving of espionage. The Cold War debate possess high evidence about the threat. In the Cold War, it talks about the theories they had, that certain people were guilty. The debate included Alger Hiss and Julius & Ethel Rosenberg. Historians continued to debate the role of Alger
The Cold War was made up of two sides, NATO and Warsaw pact. The NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization and it was the United States, Great Britain, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, and Denmark while the Warsaw Pact was the USSR, Eastern Germany, Poland, Romania, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. The Cold War consisted of several different scenarios which caused the Red Scare, fear of Communism. Because this war wasn’t technically a fighting war, there was still several things they did to treat it as a war such as the arms race. Each country was trying to create a deterrent weapon so they would be seen as feared by the other country.
A War of Ideas: Capitalism V.S. Communism With tension rising in Berlin, Germany, between Capitalism and Communism, a war of hostility broke out: the Cold War. The Cold War was a war between the western democracy capitalist United States and the totalitarian communist Soviet Union. These two superpowers held the fate of the world in their hands. Tension rose to an unbearable level during the Cold War, almost entering into World War III.
While communism is meant to help achieve equality for everyone it has been proven we can’t achieve a perfect communist state. Communism first originated from the Greek idea during the Golden Age that harmony and bliss would be achieved without owning private property (Beer, "Origins of Communism"). Lopez 2 It later than resurfaced around 1848 when Karl Marx published his book The Communist Manifesto. During Karl Marx’s time he wanted the proletariat, the working class, to overthrow the government due to bourgeoisie, the high class, having more opportunities and unfair advantages.
There was a second red scare and it was more than just background music. It was a crusade that went against the communist influence with the United States. The scope is wide and deep that curtailing the civil liberties. They had to quell political dissent to the top level of national politics to the lowest neighborhood or school meeting. There was a loyalty oath that paralleled progress of the cold war.
Communism was one of the most significant culture of all time. Millions of people lived under communist government and millions more considers whether or not it would be a better system. However it failed. The Soviet Union failed to provide an acceptable standard of living, and this was the major reason for its failure. But why?
Communism in the Cold War "The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want, they spread and grow in the evil soil of the poverty and strife. They reach their full growth when the hope of a people for a better life has died. We must keep that hope alive." as said by Harry S. Truman on march 12, 1947 in The Truman Doctrine.
Eastern European countries fell into the control of a Stalinist Russia. The rise of Communism took place during 1945-1950. Communism is a political theory derived by Karl Marx. Communists believe that society should be classless and there is no private owned property, society would own the property; Communism is a form of Socialism. Vladimir Lenin made Russia a totalitarian government and after he died, Joseph Stalin took over and became the new dictator of Russia.
The Soviet Union and the United Nations, led by the United States of America, were engaged in political and economic clashes, known as the Cold War, from the late 1940s to early 1950s. The Soviet Union stood for a Communist government, a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. Communism gained power in the 1930s, from the Great Depression because everyone was then relying on the government to fix the crisis. The United States had a Capitalist government, where a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, and the people have individual rights. So with the two governments clashing, neither of the powers liked what each other stood
From the time that World War II ended in 1945 through 1991, The United States of America (USA) and its once World War II allie, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR or the Soviet Union),were engaged in 46 years Cold War. The Cold War was not a fighting war, but a war of ideas (Capitalism versus Communism). In the Cold War the The United States of America was trying to contain communism while the Soviet Union was trying to spread communism. This all started with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels who created a book called Das Kapital in 1867. The book talks about how capitalism would collapse and communism will take over.
Andre Abi Haidar PSPA 210 INTRODUCTION It is always difficult to write about and discuss Karl Marx, or more importantly the applications of Marx’s theories, due to the fact that he inspired and gave rise to many movements and revolutionaries, not all of which follow his theories to the point. Although Marx tends to be equated with Communism, it might not seem righteous to blame him for whatever shortcomings occurred when his theories were put to the test; Marx passed away well before the revolution in Russia, and he played no role in the emergence of the totalitarian regime at the time. When discussing Marx, however, Vladimir Lenin is one of the biggest highlights when it comes to studying the outcomes of Marx’s theories.
The idea of communism arose from The Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto was a political pamphlet that gave an approach to class struggle and capitalism. The pamphlet soon after became popular across the world. Over a 100 years later, an African-American civil rights leader by the name of Martin Luther King Jr. would read this pamphlet and use similar idea's to achieve his dream of integration and equality. King, a minister, was known for using somewhat communist views in reference to Marx in many of his speeches and letters.
Through out World War 2, the United States of America and the Soviet Union, as the Allied Powers, fought to bring an end to the Axis Powers. Yet a tension existed between the two countries. the United States did not agree with the Soviet’s ideals of Communism and were worried about Joseph Stalin and his way of ruling with an iron fist. The Soviet’s didn't like How the United State did not regard the USSR as an equal in global politics. The USSR also didn't like America’s delay in joining World War 2, after having having lost so many Russian.
Marx saw capital and liberal democracies as the fundamental reasons for the low standards of living and the low social conditions of workers. Karl Marx in particular is especially concerned with the political assumptions behind these two ideologies. According to him, these two types of government should be replaced by communism, since communism would provide a more equal and socially just society. Although this statement may seem unusual, since we tend to associate communism with Stalin and China, the type of communism implemented in these countries is different from the communism that Marx and Engels envisaged in their Communist Manifesto. Marx and Engels’ vision of communism is based on the principle of equality among the people and freedom
Karl Marx was a German philosopher and economist in the 18th century. He is known for his book the Communist Manifesto that was published in 1848. Marx believed that a revolution of the working classes would over throw the capitalist order and creates a classless society. The Industrial Revolutions led to the proletarianization; his partner Friedrich Engels explained why the changes created by the proletarianization of the worker would develop into a huge problem for industrial societies. I do believe that Karl Marx’s vision of communism in the Communist Manifesto could re-emerge as a popular and workable philosophy of social, economic, and political organization.
Karl Marx and his idea of communism had ten main points of action. Great Britain used five of the ten principles during World War I. The first step they took was step two which was: “a heavy progressive or graduated income tax.” Britain doubled the income tax during the time of war.