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[JDFAN09]

Why did the United States hate communism?

[vehelpfulguy]

Well I gues you could say that the US is the ultimate Capitalist country: Democratic, anyone free to start their own business, large corporations, little state interference, low tax, get as rich as you can.

And I guess you could say Communism is the opposite end of the scale: No elections, everything state owned, little chance to start your own business, no chance to get rich, high state interferance.

So they saw the rise of communism as a threat to their way of life so felt they had to fight it.

[jake-the-peg]

But the same is true in a number of dictatorships, yet America has actively supported a number of really nasty dictatorships.

And China is a communist country and they are a favoured trading nation with the US

The truth of the matter is that the US (and truth be told most coutries) do not have a huge ideological policy.

They are primarilly concerned with protecting what they see as their global interests. (The US used to refer to them as hemispheric interests but that's inflation for you)

After the Second World War, you had a very aggressive Joseph Stalin taking over countries and installing puppet governments. That effectively shut out US influence and the fear was that that would continue in other countries.

Same thing in the far East.

It was easy to catorgorise all this as "communism = bad" for public consumption.

Nowadays many of the communist governments have gone so the new label is "axis of evil"

The issue is the same it's the spread of unfriendly regiemes, only the name is changed, the PR tactics are unchanged

[Cassiopier]

Because they were what was termed as capitalists and they were affraid that the communists were going to take over the world and take away their wealth.

Cassie