Chapter 22

This chapter tells us about the rise and fall of communism. This mainly started in Germany. The berlin wall was a huge symbol for communism. It is crazy to me to think that one man started all of this in the 19th century. Karl Marx's ideas of a completely advanced nation. How can people give up there freedom so easily for the idea of equality. They might not have realized then that to be completely communist the rich needed to be willing to give up their belongings in order to make society more financially even not hoard wealth (which the christians had prohibited against). The communist party was able to put together highly organized meetings based on the ideas of Marxism. This honestly makes me sick to my stomach to think that millions of people were so easily brain washed by a charismatic man. For 25 years Stalin built the USSR into a socialist and then communist country but it was a struggle because they tried to expand and the US tried to expand our ways of governing as well. Eventually they won over China in 1921 when the Mao dynasty came into power.

Communist government had a close relationship with the industry. They saw industry as fundamental towards a poverty free life and the strongest possible military. They did this by giving property to the state and priority of property to big cooperations. They also had a centralized city plan that took 5 years to accomplish. Unfortunately their economies grew extremely after that. Education became better and technology advanced. This gave the USSR leaders a big head in a way to where they thought that they had accomplished so much and done so much for their people that they could now do anything they wanted. They began to lose hold of their revolutionary values and promises to their societies. They also became paranoid that other countries were out to shut down their system of government. Mao dynasty went as far as to kill millions of his own people who he thought was secretly supporting capitalism. That is when society should have noticed that there was something wrong with the mindset of their leaders. And soon they did, this caused the fall of communism in many places. Which then led to the Cold war. So many issues have been caused in this world all based on one thing, how to lead a nation. It is crazy to think that ultimately we all want the same things yet were gonna kill other human beings to achieve that! It makes so little sense when you lay it all out on the table like that. We want what is best for our society there for if our majority in America wants to live one way, just let us be! And if another country wants to live a different way good for them, that's their problem. I believe unless their is genacide being committed like there was in the Holocaust, then we should all accept the other nations decisions and back off. I know theres much more too it but when I am looking at it right now just the idea of war is frustrating me to the max.