This has happened in large part because, with the collapse of communism, world markets have been opened up for U.S. multinationals, and companies like Coke and Microsoft have been harvesting big profits at home and abroad.
For more than two centuries, from the American and French Revolutions to the collapse of Soviet Communism, world politics revolved around eminently political problems.
In 10th grade, I wrote an essay for my Russian history class entitled "Communism: World Saviour?" that my teacher said was preposterous, but he gave me a good grade anyway because it was well argued.
Kent Hovind of Creation Science Evangelism blames communism, socialism, World War I, World War II, racism, the Holocaust, Stalin's war crimes, the Vietnam War, and Pol Pot's Cambodian killing fields on evolution, as well as the increase in crime, unwed mothers, and other social ills.
He had admired the foreign policy elite that built the Western alliance and held back Communism after World War II.
After following China down the path toward communism after World War II, therefore, Vietnam finds itself back in China's ideological slipstream.
In the nineteen-fifties, at the height of both the Korean War and McCarthyism, the United States' foreign policy had become the containment of Communism the world over, and military spending made up close to three-quarters of the federal budget.
What makes "The Collective" so fascinating is, first, it offers a window into daily life in Minsk in the early sixties; and, second, it offers a window into Oswald — how he conceived of the Soviet Union, communism, history, World War II, the rebirth of Minsk and his place in it.
Even political unions of the 20th century, such as that of Yugoslavia, were not always matched by feelings of ethnic or cultural accord, nor did the sharing of communism after World War II necessarily provide more than a high-level political and economic alliance.
Having faced down the totalitarian dangers of fascism and communism, the world expects us to stand up for the principle that every person has the right to think and write and form relationships freely – because individual freedom is the wellspring of human progress.
Giampa retweeted a Nov. 25 tweet blaming Jews for communism and World War II.
