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Advanced Technical Centers Americans Attitudes Toward Communism Discussion Board
To prompt you all to think about what Communism means, as conceived by its founder Karl Marx, and first implemented its most historically influential proponent, Vladimir Lenin of the USSR, I want you to make at least 2 paragraph-long posts on the DISCUSSION BOARD
Question 1
Communism in Russia/USSR
What was Russia like before 1917 and why was it difficult for the Bolsheviks like Lenin and Stalin to impose a Communist system of government onto the people of the USSR after the Bolshevik Revolution? Was this Communist revolution doomed from the start to degenerate into brutal authoritarianism and repression? What would Marx have said about the way Russia developed into a Communist society, if he had lived long enough to see it?
Question 2
Americans’ attitudes toward Communism
It is often said that out of all people in the world, Americans in particular, tend to have an almost pathological fear and hatred of Communism (as a system, a way of life, a philosophy), and this hatred goes way back in time, long before Stalin. What is it about Americans — in terms of their history, culture, way of life–that makes them so often fear or hate the principles of Communism? Again I’m not talking about Stalin– almost everyone hates him and regards him as a brutal dictator. I’m talking about Communism or Marxism as an ideology (a worldview) that aims to create a classless society? European nations had much bigger Communist and Socialist parties than the US ever did. Why? Why were American workers perhaps less attracted to Communism than, say, workers in Great Britain, Germany, France or Italy?
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