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Considering Nazism around 1941 and Communism in the aftermath of World War II around the late 1940s or so, which do you think the U.S. considered to be a bigger threat? Even setting aside the A-bomb for a moment, was Communism still the greater foreign danger at the time compared to Nazism right as the U.S. was entering the war?
Very good question. I think it would be Communism since it was predicated on the elevation of all (should have worked everywhere according to Marx) whereas Nazism was more about elevating Germany and the Germans at the expense of their neighbors and the rest of the world. If it had worked better generally (see next paragraph) it'd have overrun the world.Marx missed the point though... capitalist (industrialized) societies had the mechanisms built in to elevate the workers w/o revolution. The biggest successes for Communist revolutions were in agrarian societies... the offer of land will always get the peasants to revolt, just don't tell them that when you take the land away from the wicked landholders you're going to keep it for the gov't and rent it to them. They will see the difference but way too late to help. 😮My $0.02,Wally
