American Anticomminist Propaganda

Watching films and comics, and listening to the radio of American Anticommunist, I found that it had great effects of brainwashing people. An announcement of “Civic Defense Policy” made on radio certainly made a sufficient role of making people believe that they were facing serious threats by communist. And, the cartoon “Make Mine Freedom” explained that capitalism could provide people freedom, prosperity and an equal society. However, I realized that they brainwashed people that communism was unjustified and risky through those propagandas, but none of them really explained why communism was a failure in a convincing way. Of course, there was the Cold War going on at the time, so the government needed to brainwash citizens in order to pursue the triumph of capitalism over communism. But, it seems for me that people used different ideologies as reasons to fight, without really analyzing which is better and worse. As matter of a fact, looking at any regime in present countries, we cannot really say that it is capitalism or socialism, because most of countries use both elements in their regimes. Two ideologies have mutually influenced each other, so that they could develop their ideas better. For example, the regime of a capitalistic country has elements of socialism, at the same time the regime of a socialistic country has elements of capitalism. It is important to remember that every regime is mixed of different ideologies which make the regime more productive.

Bourgeois & Proletarians

In the Chapter “Bourgeois and Proletarians” in Manifesto of the Communist Party, Engles and Marx talked about the relationship between Bourgeois and Proletarians. Bourgeois is a new class which replaced the guild and the manufacturing middle class. The difference is that Bourgeois took away “all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations” from them, therefore they exploit workers more directly without any political and religious reasons. Bourgeois also practiced the exploitation in the world market, where rural people are dependent on civilized people, nations of peasants on nations of bourgeois and the East on the West. As we can see, it is them who spread the segregation of wealth and poverty to the world.

The victims are Proletarians who only had values when Bourgeois had them to work. As the result of industrial revolution, there were many industrial machines. So Proletarians are only required simple works which declined their values as workers and this also brought more wealth to Bourgeois. Therefore, Proletarians had to fight with Bourgeois. It is the dissatisfaction with Bourgeois which made them united, and with the modern proletarian their numbers increased rapidly. Bourgeois was not really able to control them because they were too many. There were much more Proletarians who only could a little amount of money than Bourgeois who possessed much wealthy, and it is also true that Bourgeois industrial way made the base of strong solidarity of Proletarians.