Karl Marx is the man who
influenced the political and philosophical teachings modern communism. Communism was at its prime in the 1970s where
about one-third of the world’s population lived under communist rule. This was commonly found in the Soviet Union
and in China but it also made its way over to Eastern Europe. There were different interpretations of
communism but they shared the common ideology derived from European
Marxism. This influenced the lower
classes and a worldwide socialist federation to bond together to form an
international revolutionary movement.
The Russian Revolution served as a catalyst for others to revolt while
providing them with aid and advice. Soon,
a Treaty of Friendship between the Soviet Union and China in 1950 joined the
two communist giants in an alliance that caused many in the West to view
communism as a unified international movement aimed at their destruction.
The Russian Revolution is like
an echo of French Revolution because the people wanted their freedom and to
treated as equals. The beneficiaries of
the French Revolution, the middle class, suffered due to rise of
communism. At an attempt to put an end
to the threatening communistic ways, America created the Marshall Plan in
attempts to be friendly with the USSR but they quickly caught on to the
Americans and the plan failed. Stalin,
head of the USSR, acted to install fully communist governments, loyal to
himself, in Poland, East Germany, Czech, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. Many years following the likes of the
Russians, the Chinese experienced an on-going battle with communism that took
decades to achieve. The Chinese imperial
system had collapsed under the pressure of foreign imperialism. This took much longer to achieve because in
Russia they have been studying and following Karl Marx for years while China
had only recently discovered it making it difficult to gain as many followers
as Russia did.
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