Why did America hate communism?
Leslie, Not only Cold War; what about Vietnam? Daniel, Like im going to take advice from you. You think the kick off to World War II was Pearl Harbor. A little information for you. Japan was in a war of their own and they got all their supplies from us. We thought we could end the war if we embargoed and stopped supplying their war. Well they didn't take kindly to that so they dropped a bomb on Pearl Harbor. We in return dropped 2 nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They surrendered.
Why does America hate communism?
Most Americans don't even know what communism is. In reply to your question, someone said it failed everywhere... yet the same people claim that the Democrats are communist because of their views on health care. Yet universal health care is the norm in every industrialized country in the world, with the United States as the only exception. Based on that viewpoint, the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Canada, Australia... communist, all! Further, if a government funded policy that provides universal protection means the country is communist, then we're communist too -- we have communist military, communist police, communist libraries, communist schools. One last comment... having to do, not with communism, but with capitalism. The capitalist proponents claim that capitalism works because it rewards hard work. Nonsense. Capitalism rewards big business for the hard work of its employees, who get a meager paycheck that barely lets them survive before getting thrown to the wolves. My father was a scientist. He spent his life going to school, getting Masters degrees in Chemistry and Microbiology. He finally invented something that most people have benefited from: if you've ever had an operation and got the stitches that absorb into your skin, you can thank my father, because he invented them. His hard work in a capitalist society spawned an invention that helps mankind and worth hundreds of millions of dollars. For the company he worked for, that is, who got all the patents because he invented them as an employee. He got his paycheck, and the company got all the money and all the patents, and then he got laid off, and he had to sell the house and buy a small trailer. He couldn't afford groceries (I was bringing him groceries all the time) and he eventually died because, although he had Medicare, he decided he could not afford to go to the doctor because of a $10 copay. (By the time I learned he didn't go to the doctor, it was too late.) His invention got hundreds of millions of dollars for Johnson & Johnson. He got the shaft. So much for hard work rewarding a person in capitalist society.
Why do american hate communism?
communists are not evil, at least no more than capatalists. do americans realise there are thousands of people living in american in poverty and there are people in america with billions of dollars. and as for power corrupts well now america is more powerful than the communists were so is america more corrupt than them corrupt. why can communism olny be under a dictatorship, that is not written in the communist manifesto. why are democracies better it was only after tito died that civil war broke out and more poeple have died in iraq since saddam was toppled than when he was in power.
If America hates communism so much, why do they fight with non communist Russia while being friends with communist China?
It's called Realpolitik. China was opposed to the Soviet Union and willing to consider the “paper Tiger imperialism” of the USA the lesser of two evils.For both China and the USA it was a case of “the enemy of my enemy”. China was also uninterested in exporting revolution abroad and its foreign policy goals lined up well with those of the USA. By allying with China, the US was able to deepen the wedge in the global communist movement and pro-chinese movements in Asia and Africa devoted themselves to fighting Soviet allies rather than spreading communism. This all served the US anticommunist agenda well.The US supported the genocidal, Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge as a weapon against communist Vietnam and backed murderous Maoist gangs like UNITA in Angola in their terrorist wars against pro-soviet African governments. UNITA later dropped its communist ideology and became an openly reactionary terror organisation but it retained Chinese and US backing until well into the 1990s.Until the 1980’s and China's integration into global capitalism, the US-China relationship was cordial but hardly warm. After the 1990s, deepening mutual interests have made the US and China cautious, but deeply codependant friends.Ideologies are almost always trumped by Realpolitik when it comes to the way countries interact in the real world.
Why do Americans generally hate Communists?
Rich, industry giants waged a campaign to discredit and even threaten any movement that they regarded as a thing that might destroy their supremacy. Communism was far more prevalent in the early part of the 20th Century and there was even a Communist Party USA, formed in 1919, as well as several Socialist ones led by various social reformers.During the Depression, Americans became much more receptive to President Roosevelt’s basically Socialist plans to revitalize the economy and provide jobs for all. For a very brief period, people could see that this was the main goal of Communism and Socialism, not same evil plan to take over the country.But the rich soon used events in Russia (the Bolshevik revolution and post WWII takeovers of countries in Eastern Europe) to scare the public into believing that all “Reds” were anti-American plotters and nothing infuriates Americans more than anti-Americanism, even when it isn’t real.Unlike most countries that have been around for centuries, the U.S. is very young and often acts like a child would: defensive, uneducated about certain things, angry and afraid of being told what to do and easily conned by its elders.