Why do SO many Americans hate communism?

[Marshalscienceguy]

I keep hearing that America hates communism. Is this true?

 

If so, how did this begin and why do they hate communism (or communists)?

Communism pays people who do no work and take that payment from people who do a lot of work.

So some people feel like communism is ripping off half the people since not everyone has to work.

Generally why people tend to disagree with the idea of communism since they do not want to get ripped off.

They also think it has the draw back of creating laziness. If a doctor lives as well and makes as much as a fast food worker

why try so hard to be the doctor? He is not going to get anymore pay. They are going to be in the same spot for the rest

of there life no matter what they do. Some people do not like being stuck in the same spot and not having a chance to move

forward. Also a lot of time communist systems will just give the most money to the leaders while everyone else is much poorer.

Which is also something people believe is unfair. Some People want to be judged for their own individual skills and talents not always

tossed together as just like everyone else.

Edited April 2, 2014 by Marshalscienceguy

[alkis3]

 

why do so many Americans hate communism?

because they don't know what it is

[Schneibster]

It's so doctrinaire.

 

The US left prefers socialism.

[SamBridge]

Full of high sounding ideas, but if you want to know the truth, just read up on a bit of history. Life in the old Soviet Union, East Germany, Cambodia, pick one.

The problem with that is communists could say the same things about capitalist societies. If you know history, you know what Europe did to other countries and you know how many governments the US corrupted, so there's really no good answer to like or hate any particular form of government.

 

If so, how did this begin and why do they hate communism (or communists)?

It comes from many places. European colonists were generally the first to make such assertions on a government level, viewing other less powerful cultures as primitive (despite the fact that Europe's power came directly from these "primitive cultures"), and since many of these cultures were community based, the Europeans associated communism with primitive lifestyle and thus viewed communism as primitive, and this was 100-500 years ago. Rationally speaking though, this was not true as there have been many successful regions of the world where people share resources in community based societies to survive and economically complex communal systems that pre-date Europe's rise to power, and when capitalism was imposed upon their lifestyles, ecosystems and economies became damaged and caused famine and environmental degradation on large scales.

 

Eventually, community based societies got tired of being pushed around and became strong enough to kick out the influence of European colonizers which was around the early to mid 20th century all over the world. The European capitalist societies had treated them very badly, and as a result, there were some (but not all) new nation-states that became polarized towards extreme communism once they won their independence. The US being capitalist and more similar to Europe viewed new nation-states governments as a threat and propaganda was started against communism by the US and Europe to gain the support of the public as the two sides became more polarized. Occasionally the US got involved in wars with communism parties such as with Korea and Vietnam and was sometime asked by Europe with help with keeping colonies under control which the colonies were not fond of. There was also the Cold War during the mid-late 20th century which was against the Soviet Union and the United States, and the USSR (soviet union) was also very communist which fueled even more polarization. Now, there's more of a threat from China economically to the US, and China use to be communist but actually isn't that communist anymore.

Edited May 2, 2014 by SamBridge