Communism During The Cold War

To begin, Marx view of a democratic socialism helps to maintain formal and material freedom within society. He articulates these two forms of liberty as the former allows the freedom to pursue an action where there are no laws forbidding it, while the latter refers to individuals being formally able to do an action and having the necessary resources to satisfy their goal in mind. In capitalism, the workers and the leaders who control the means of production become divided on the basis of wealth and status. These two classes of people depend on each other, but the workers become oppressed by not having their material freedom. That is, the working class can partake in certain formal actions but they will not have the resources to meet their ends because of the lack of money they posses. Whereas, the higher members of society have both formal and material freedom because of the amount of wealth they contain and the connections that allow for the pursuit of any kind of end. Marx sees capitalism as having equality and liberty being what could potentially happen but not actually a possibility for the working class. This becomes deceiving in the sense

Whether or not communism or capitalism was more powerful was the question at hand during the Cold War. The Soviet Union and the United States had a major difference over a political and economic system called Communism. The idea of communism, the belief that private property should be replaced by community, was accepted by the Soviet Union but the United States opposed it. By the end of the war, the US and the Soviet Union never actually came in contact and fought, however, the US managed to contain communism and prevent the Soviets from expanding. The US contained communism through aiding Berlin, invading Korea, and quarantining Cuba.

Of the factors which shaped American society in the Cold War era, the fear of communism and its potential to spread imposed the greatest effect upon the United States. From the worldwide devastation of World War II arose two powers: United States of America, fueled by a capitalist economy, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR, whose economy embodied the communist ideals of Karl Marx. Marx himself stated, “Communism is already acknowledged by all...powers to be in itself a power”. Marx predicted the power of a communistic society well before the first World War began. In the wake of the devastation

According to Marxist theory, it should have been impossible for Russia to achieve socialism. It was the least industrialized country in Europe, and most of its population consisted of peasants rather than a class-conscious proletarian working class. The first socialist country should have been a country like the United States, but proletarian revolution did not occur in the United States first or ever. Over the course of the past 110 years, historians, political scientists, and economists have all attempted to explain why. The bulk of this historiographical essay will address Werner Sombart’s 1906 assessment of the failings of American socialism, Eric Foner’s critical reinterpretation of the question from 1984, and these works’ conversation with each other and other studies.

The author of The Devil We Knew wrote this book from a standpoint of displeasure at the way the government handled the Cold War. I believe that H.W. Brands was not alone in this feeling of the government failing its people. The Cold War was the third war in a very short period of time. During the first two wars 100,000 Americans and millions of non-Americans were slaughtered. The feeling of continuous war and death to simply be in another war was more than some people could stand (VI). Thus, their fear took on the image of communists, they became the scapegoat for everything we feared.

During the 1950’s, there was a great sense of political pride. Each country felt that their own way of running their countries was better than the practices used in other countries and because of this they did not want to see another country’s influences in their homeland. In this era, American democracy and Russian communism were at odds. America runs on democracy which allows the people to exercise their “freedom” (Anti Communist Propaganda). In the American society, communism is a system of international control and conformity and the act of the government taking complete control over the citizens’ freedom and property (Eisenhower).

I would like to start off this essay by first stating that it would be immensely hypocritical to call myself a member of the proletariat or even a Communist. I, however, subscribe to the belief that some of the writings in the Communist Manifesto, are indeed applicable. Which, in the long run should be implemented in all liberal societies as a means to protect the working class peoples.

One of the greatest debates of all time has been regarding the issue of the freedom of mankind. The one determining factor, for Marx, it that freedom is linked with class conflict. As a historian, Karl Marx traced the history of mankind by the ways in which the economy operated and the role of classes within the economy. For Marx, the biggest question that needed to be answered was “Who owns freedom?” With this in mind, Marx gives us a solution to both the issues of freedom and class conflict in his critique of capitalism and theory of communism, which is the ideal society for Marx. His theory of communism is based on the “ultimate end of human history” because there will be freedom for all humankind.

The primary warning USSR inflicted on the Americans was the alarm implanted in the American civilians. Directly after the triumph of World War II, America could be depicted as delirious in its accomplishments of post-war life. For the American nation the melancholy had concluded, upscale suburbs were springing up across the nation and the economic state was at its pinnacle. Material abundance had now proceeded to determine the flourishing way of life of the new America. The communist’s capability to obliterate America’s accomplishments and the constant warnings to do so impede America’s honour and faith dramatically. Consequently, creating terror and loss of mind all through the America society. This panic and paranoia eventually resulted to the deteriorating relationship between USSR and USA. In a speech composed by the American President Truman during 1947, he defines the distinguishing contrasts among Communism and Capitalism. He emotionally expresses that a capitalist nation is fuelled by the will of the majority and it is defined by “free institutions, representative government, free elections, guarantees of individual liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and freedom from political oppression.” It is clear through the regular use of the word ‘free’ and ‘freedom’ that Truman believed strongly about the theory of capitalism. On the other hand, he defined communism as a way of life based on the will of a minority effectively forced upon the majority. Truman’s speech focuses on the current fundamental debates over government capability and social structure and reveals how it separated the previously allied nations and caused a fierce battle for world authority. The ideological differences between USA and USSR were undoubtedly the most destructive factor to their

The first thing that is important when objectively examining the ideology of communism is the historical bias we as Americans have experienced. Although not all of Marx’s beliefs would not be considered universally peaceful, the movement itself is about putting power directly into the hands of the people and taking it away from the their oppressors, even if (and possibly especially if) they do not realise they are oppressed in the first place. Ultimately, Marx aims to liberate the people he sees as the contributors to society by banding them together in solidarity to ensure the destruction of liberal democracy, private property, and individual rights.

Accordingly, one idea or fact that is often raised to differentiate socialism from communism is that socialism in general is the political movement that refers to an economic system in that they believe that the state should be in charge of all important producing industries thus taking hold of the control of free market in order to promote economic parity and egalitarianism. Theoretically, socialism seeks to distribute wealth equally among its citizens in a way that the rich don’t take

Socialist countries are more relaxed, but have higher taxes to pay for public needs; while communist countries are more strict and place more control on their people, but the state provides them with public needs. Socialism shares similarities but to a lesser extent. For example, equality and the working class moving towards the same goal is the main focus in communism. And the community gives out what the produce based on what you need not how much you work, which usually leads to a lot of poverty. Socialism also focus’ on equality, but workers earn money they can spend as they chose; while the government owns the means of production. Everything in communist countries from state-controlled unions to not allowing privately owned business, are

There can be no doubt over the wide-ranging influence of Karl Marx’s theories on sociology and political thought. His concept of communism overcoming the socioeconomic pitfalls of capitalism has not been a theory that has seen the light of day in the way that he may have hypothesised. There have been many throughout history that have misrepresented Marx’s writing, which begs the question, if pure communism in the original Marxist sense is at all possible given that humanity appears to have an innate ‘need’ for hierarchy and a thirst for power.

In industrial-capitalist societies, he maintained, the struggle between capitalists and workers pushes society toward a socialist system of production. Marx vision about social conflict arising from inequality has proven to be correct and that it does create changes in every society.

For many years, countries all around the world have been long debated between Capitalism (Democracy or Republic) and Communism. The cold war is a perfect example of this; we spent approximately 50 years in terror to solve this global issue. We should emphasize on the one system that will lead to bright future. We, as humans, living/working under government. So we should make our political system without obstacles and well organized. This question assumed from the fundamental argument. In this argument, there are two perspectives shown: yes, if more countries agree to adopt communist principles, we live equally, and more suitably than Capitalism; and, no, countries shouldn’t have a communist policy because capitalism has more advantages than