Communism is a threat to the parasite ruling classes under capitalism, as it will mean a world without rulers or armies or poverty. It will make the world far more stable than capitalism, where the profit motive and short-term gains are behind global heating.
Well their was a time where a senator known a Joseph McCarthy led something called the red scare where communists could be arrested and imprisoned for being apart of a communist party, believing in the communist theory or in many examples if your were against segregation or spoke out against it you were seen as someone who was leaning left. they made their own courts to investigate the communists. So when you hear this it sounds like it was, but I've personally spoken with many old timers from that time who say that during this time the people weren't hiding scared of the Communists some were afraid but it was only some, but because that minority held power so they were listened to more.
Communism is not and was not a threat to world stability in the sense that Communism did not actually make nations unstable. What Communism threatened was democracy and democratic norms as well as historic Euro-American Imperialism. That was the major threat that the US and the Western European countries strove to countenance.
The Red scare and how communism was a threat to the free world (U.S.)
The threat of communism - APEX
Australian government responded to communism in many different ways . after the start of communism , Australia started to suffer from paranioa due to the apparent " domino threoy' that was just one of the many events that are linked to communism.
No one believed the rise of communism was a greater threat than Germany during WWII. Western Europe was allied with communist Russia during WWII, so they did not wish to destroy their ally. It wasn't until after WWII that fear shifted to the rise of communism, as communism spread all over Eastern Europe and even divided Germany.
Australia saw commmunism coming be countries surrounding them were suffering from communism eg: Korea.
Mainly the spread of communism. Americans also viewed the USSR as a nuclear threat.
Australians believed that Australia was not being threatened by communism, and that the right of free speech and free association should not be restricted in a democratic country. Also, many workers saw Menzies as a greater threat and did not want him to take power away from the union- even if they had communists within them.
Anticommunism was belief that Communist rule was not acceptable. There were many who felt Communism was an imminent threat to the US after World War 2. The wars in Korea and Vietnam were conflicts the US became involved in in an effort to do just this.
the soviet union had a large portion of the earth in communism and formed a strong and weak alliance with china, and seized communism in Cuba near the U.S. and had a strong military and had many nukes as a threat to the world and was feared.
The threat of communism was spreading through the United States in former countries
The duration of The Lost World of Communism is 3600.0 seconds.
Two key factors that contributed to the growth of religion during the 1950s were the Cold War climate, which led to an emphasis on traditional values and spirituality as a way to combat the perceived threat of communism, and the post-World War II economic prosperity in the United States, which provided people with the means and stability to invest in religious institutions.