Hi all. Please forgive me if this is not specific enough, I’m not a historian or anything. I am just really interested in history in general.
To be more specific to my question though; what I mean, is how has it become this feared & propagandized thing that it is? I tried a quick YouTube search of this, hoping for a video on how/why this happened, but couldn’t find anything. Most of the videos I found inherently held the assumption you already knew what communism is at the very least.
So potentially…where did it come from, has it worked anywhere (besides current China?), why was it propagandized how it is in the US, why are so we afraid of it? Why is it still this dramatically hated philosophy even today?
I appreciate any answers to this. Thanks a lot.
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I make no claims to this being a definitive answer, but you might be interested in this older answer I wrote about Senator Eugene McCarthy and the Red Scare of the 1950s. It wasn't the first "Red Scare" in the United States by any stretch (that would have been the period around 1919), but it's probably the one that's most relevant to the US in the Cold War and afterwards.
I would also present this shorter answer I wrote as a bit of a counter-argument to the idea that the United States has always been obsessed with communism - even during the Cold War there were plenty of times when the US was perfectly fine cooperating with communist regimes (especially if they were at odds with the Soviet Union).