Communism Vs Totalitarianism

In the United States of America, for instance, American liberalism and conservatism are two main ideologies common within the state. However, both ideologies originated from more generic liberalism (Shively, 2014). Apart from these two ideologies, the socialism and fascism are other forms of ideologies that are prominent in the

I noticed that while taking this Political Compass test most of my answers were either agree or disagree, very few questions I answered with strongly agree/disagree. For that reason, I believed that my results were more inclined to be on the non-ideological side since my answers were not radical. According to the test, I fall under the Green section that represents the modern liberal and progressive party; however, diagonally I am around three boxes from the center of the graph. In other words, I would be considered non-ideological since I am closer to the middle of the graph rather than on an extreme side of the political compass. Although my results were bit towards the lower left side, I found it accurate to consider myself non-ideological. I am still in the process of learning about economic and social dimensions thus it is too early to label myself especially as a college student.

Communism played a major role shaping the 20th century, both for the East and the United States. Its impact can be seen in the US from 1919 to the 1990s and even today. The spread of Communist ideals in the East meant the beginning of the socialist state and mass industrialization. Its effect on the US was much different. The United States people, heavily diversified of all races, religions, and financial statuses, became extremely jingoistic as a result of competition with the USSR. This nationalism became unhealthy as citizens began determining what was “un-American.” The Communist Party USA was not successful in their primary objective of spreading communism to the US. What they did achieve however was hugely important. They showed that citizens of the United States could be scared out of their own freedom. That fear would lead them to give up “liberty and justice for all”. Still a highly misunderstood idea, it is important for citizens of the United States to understand what communism is and what impact the CPUSA and other communist organizations had on the country.

In a political atmosphere where it is easy to be labeled as either conservative or liberal, this simple label is becoming more difficult. Non-traditional ideologies are now emerging into the political arena that in prior elections would have been scoffed at. This 2016 election has shown a clear rise in support for Libertarianism, Democratic Socialism, and Authoritarianism. That is why it is important to understand what these ideologies mean through definition, policy preferences and the true impact these three ideologies have.

Different ideologies tend to appeal to different demographic characteristics such as gender, class, race, etc. because a person’s background will affect which system of ideas they most closely align with. Liberalism and conservatism, for example, are ideologies that regularly contradict each other, because they appeal to different demographics based upon many factors such as class, race, gender, religion, etc. The general worldview of liberalism is that people have individual rights and liberty, while promoting progress. On the other hand, conservatism places greater importance of keeping tradition and strict regulation of rules. In determining the extent of appeal to different demographics, one must assess the ways in which both ideologies

categories in its impressive study of state-level variation based on measures of partisanship and ideology

Politics is intricate and complex, not black or white, therefore deciding where one stands isn’t as simple as being either ‘liberal’ or ‘conservative’. Thus, a more three-dimensional approach was created: The Political Compass. This multifaceted analysis includes not only the traditional economic stance but a social stance as well. Although someone claims they’re a liberal, they might tend towards communism. With the traditional ‘left or right’ scale, it would be impossible to know that; The Political Compass, however, has a dimension for fascism and anarchism along with communism and neo-liberalism which would indicate both the economic scale (communism) and social scale (libertarian). It is also a more accurate way to determine where certain politicians lie. Take Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany. She’s a moderate neo-liberalist who is neither full fascist or anarchist. By understanding her policies and background and comparing her to others on the Political Compass, one can see that this is, in fact, true.

Marx understanding of society shift into modernism lead to develop a form of communism that would come to be known as Marxism, communism is the economic thought of Marxism. Marx understands that Modernism calls for society to embrace equality for the betterment of society. Part of the problem with Capitalism comes from its exploitation of the working class; Marx understands this problem to be a vein of Pre-modernism and not a pillar of Modernism. Marx calls for the working class to rise up over their bourgeoisie oppressors and seize the equality that rightfully belongs to them. “Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other – bourgeoisie and proletariat. (Communist pg. 9)” If society wants to embrace modernism, then society needs to shift its focus from fighting each other and one exploiting another to a classless society. Marx highly criticizes the bourgeoisie in The Communist Manifesto, and this stems from the problems they created for themselves and for the rest of society. In their attempt to gain more power, land, and resources, their material conditions, upon the prominence which their families had been formed, were dissipating due to the lack of foresight and selfish greed. If the Bourgeoisie continues to exploit the proletariat then society will head to conflict, as is expected of Pre-modernism, but if the Bourgeoisie cease its exploitation and relinquish its power for the group,

Although both fascism and communism initiated in Europe and both extended their popularity in the mid-20th century, they had opposing thoughts and principles. Fascism and communism were centered around repressive political systems founded on the control of a single leader. Communism is built upon the theory of economic equality, however, fascism is focused on the glory of the state and strength is shown by violence and conquest. The definitions, political and economic systems, ideas, and the social structures are unique differences of the two.

Socialism and communism are ideological principles that have many distinguishing features in addition to many shared characteristics; however, it is complicated to distinguish the accurate differences between them, as various societies have tried embarking on the dissimilar nature of both systems in innumerable forms, thereby, making many zealous supporter of ideology with different agendas defining both systems in a biased term.

Researchers view conservatism as a form of motivated reasoning. That is, a person’s psychological tendencies, rather than their objective assessment of public policy, is what drives conservatism. Following this argument, we might expect that conservatives would be less objective in their discussion of politics than liberals. While this hypothesis is plausible, there are other possibilities to consider. A growing body of research, coined the ideological symmetry hypothesis, indicates that motivated reasoning may inform both conservatism and liberalism. In other words, conservatives may be just as objective as liberals while reaching different conclusions. What we have are two competing hypotheses. On one hand, we have research indicating that

I would say none of the above, I would say it was a conflict of two ideologies. One was not better than another, in a moral sense. They are just two different forms of government. Although Capitalism did last longer and most of the Capitalist countries did not collapse like most of the Communist countries did like the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and the German Democratic Republic. The clash of ideologies model here really does apply. Communism, as least as the United States of America and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization saw it, wanted to take the world for its own, and Capitalism, as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance

Liberalism and Communism, two ends of a spectrum, two ideologies that people have long seen as being diametrically opposed to each other. Though these aforementioned philosophies have some truths in them, they are not completely consistent with facts. Communism is often flagrantly misunderstood in America; it brings up images of the communist programs in Russia, Cuba, and China, of ruthless dictators, forced workmanship, and long ration lines, though these images are propaganda based and misconstructions, as none of those countries were ever communist regimes. What is most often overlooked in communism is the similarities that it shares with liberalism. Both ideologies believe in the uniqueness of the individual, that the private person

What do you think of when you hear the words democratic, bigot, feminist, conservative, and liberal? These words can mean something relatively close to different cultures or mean something completely different. In this paper I will explain in detail, what what these words mean to me,. I will then venture on to see if they have a similar or different meaning in cultures other than mine. In concluding my paper I will briefly address what was previously discussed and add in any opinions I may have .

Neoliberal Values. The first key dependent variable in this study is neoliberal values (DV). While neoliberalism is “a political project that entails a set of particular economic and political ideologies,” this study will be focusing on the dimension that emphasizes “the individual and the importance of individual initiative and distaste for all collective efforts” (Dolhinow, 2006). The degrees of neoliberalism will be determined by the responses to the following statements: 1) America is a society that protects and guarantees my basic rights, 2) I think America provides opportunities for success for everyone, 3) Through hard work, anyone can overcome racism or sexism in America (Alpha=.83). The items that measured adherence towards neoliberal values were operationalized with a range from 1=Disagree, through 3=Neither Agree not Disagree, to 5=Strongly Agree. The closer to 1 a participant is the less likely to adhere to neoliberal values and the closer to 5 the more likely to adhere to neoliberal values the participant was. To capture the variability of the scores for the variable neoliberal values measures of central tendency were calculated. The results of these analysis are; N = 575, M=3.33, SD=1.256. When you look at the mean, it appears that most participants lean slightly more to adhering to neoliberal values than not.