class of ideology between capitalism and communism

    USA SU

    - Capitalist, private properties
    - creates wealth but doesn’t redistribute wealth really well
    - about profit
    - efficiency

    - Communist, all industry owned and run by the state.
    - no private properties
    - equality
    - no profit-motivation in SU
    - bare minimum
    - a quota system
    - quota - a quantitative goal to achieve
    - quota in five year plans
    - 5 year plan
    - short term and long term plans
    - control every aspect of life in the SU
    - command economy not responsive to the market and changing situation

    - democracy, gov. chosen in free dedmocratic elections
    - house of representatives
    - every 2
    - based on population
    - the senate
    - every 6
    - 2 senate for each state
    - = bicameral legislation
    - agencies under the Executive branch
    - pro of election
    - flexibility
    - gets fresh blood into the gov. so no over reliance
    - gaining new generations

    - one-party Dictatorship, elections held but candidates all communist party
    - overly relied on Stalin
    - Stalin eliminated all his rivals
    - use of purges to control society
    - soviet election
    - Intra party elections
    - Stalin & lack of new generation
    -

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    - world’s wealthiest country
    - wealth inequality & exploitation
    - rich b/c the market power always win
    - freedom - freedom to fail -> innovation
    - immigrant country
    - attractive of talents
    - racial inequality and civil rights movement
    - Martin Luther King - MLK
    - during Vietnam war
    - ability to innovate with freedom
    - throughout Cold War
    - economically superior
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    - economic superpower b/c industry grown rapidly in the 20s & 30s
    - general standard of living in the SU much lower than in the US.
    - BUT unemployment and extreme poverty rarer in the US
    - Brezhnev - produced consumer goods and better standards of living
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    - individualism
    - free of control > equality
    - against tyranny
    - - Don’t tell me what to do
    - freedom to encourage innovations
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    - individual rights < good of society
    - individuals’ lives were tightly controlled
    - SU not allowed to failed
    - prisoned or murdered
    - collectivism
    - freedom viewed from a more material view
    - everyone has the basics of life = freedom
    - free stuff
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    - most US confident that other countries should follow the US way
    - American way
    - free elections
    - freedom, liberty
    - free markets
    - South Korea
    - success demonstration of American Way
    - South Korea, West Germany, Japan
    - cultural impact
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    - most SU confident that other countries should follow the communist way
    - Utopianism
    - command economy
    - authoritarianism
    - top-down gov.
    - collectivism
    - wanted a politburo
    - ~ CPS
    - to control everything
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    - US alarmed by communist theory advocating for spreading revolution
    - communist theory - internationalism
    - private propety - quasi-religious
    - US - really religious
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    - some Russification come back under Stalin
    - Communist talked of communism revolution everywhere - ‘Permanent Revolution’ (Trotsky)
    - internationalism
    - Red Scares
    - but SU tend to take practical decisions rather than led by the ideology
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    - most US thought they are doing the right thing
    - Super hero
    - US hated classic colonialism
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    - SU saw US as selfish and building economic empire & political influence
    - SU hated neo-colonialism
    - economic colonialism
    - US consumer goods, e.g. automobiles, airplanes, invention of jet airplane travel, dominated the world
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    race-relations in US

    • segregations in the 40s, 50s
    • desegregations in the 60s
    • SU claimed superior to US discrimination
      • double standards
      • while ethnic Russians also gained benefits

    Mccarthy

    Russia - continuity or change?

    every country oriented by self-interest

    sovereignty

    • self-determination
      • ‘stop controlling me!’
    • EU to some extent made the countries gave up sovereignty
    • US only colony
      • Philippines