- a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
However, this was different from the Communism that the USSR came to represent. Their representation of communism came to become something more like a dictatorship. So the ideas were spread across nations following the end of world war II. Both countries were considered 'superpowers' and the influence they had on other, less politically potent was very great. They were able to impress their ideals upon nations, and following World War II, the basic conflict was this. However, there was no return to normalcy, as Foner said; the conflict just kind of continued, with no real end. Both countries wanted to impose themselves, and take down the other, stealthily and with ideals. No real battle happened, more like a battle of ideas and will.
I never knew that with a simple capital letter an English word can change its meaning or the meaning of the sentence. However in languages such as Arabic a single letter can mean the complete opposite of what you are trying to convey. I agree with Foner when he talks about how the conflict did not really have an end point to it because the conflict did not have an actual fist to fist battle.
ReplyDeleteThis all seemed to be up to how communism was used. Communism became something entirely different to communism. They were essentially very separate things it as not the difference of capitalization but the difference of of teh meaning itself. Commuism is what was feared where as communism was not as much of a direct threat
ReplyDeleteThis blog was really unique when compared to other ones! It was so interesting when you mentioned that Communism and communism are different. I never expected the USSR interpretation of Communism to be with a capital "C' and the Karl Marx interpretation of communism to be spelled with a lowercase "c." Interesting.
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