Chapter 3: Command Versus Spontaneity:
Section 1: Marxism
-B. Disraeli writes Sybil about the classes, industrial revolution. Warns that countries exploiting people for economy will be in trouble. Marx agrees.
-Marxism makes poor happy, rich scared, and governments in between.
-Wilson sees problems with military fighting Germany and other fighting with Bolsheviks in 1917/1918.
Section 2: Marxism-Leninism
-Marx is vague, Lenin gets it done.
-End of WWII, Wilson would look like a failed idealist, compromises too much.
-End of WWII, Lenin would look like a successful realist.
-Marxism-Leninism is very popular in Europe. Americans self-doubt.
Section 3: Reviewing Obvious Things
-Cold War changed everything.
-Pearl Harbor affects security, Wilson becomes relevant.
-Everyone was initially allies, stuff changed, duh.
Section 4: More Obvious Things
-Ideologies are different. Stalin and Lenin both were horrible to their country.
-Germans occupying USSR were really bad too.
-Marx is a lot like Stalin.
Section 5: Goals of the US
-No one ever planned how to use capitalism to stop communism.
-US wants military stuff to be kept away from some other countries.
-Function of government – facilitate freedom. (Marshall Plan)
-US was the only economically capable country to attack SU.
Section 6: Stalin/Beria/Plotting
-Maybe Stalin was the problem.
-Beria stops purges, tries to close Korean War, wants to fix up Germany.
-West Germany made Stalin angry: communism can’t go there naturally, so he forms East Germany.
-That all goes badly. Beria tries to crush East German uprising, thrown in jail.
Section 7: Khrushchev
-Khrushchev tracks and mocks Stalin’s crimes (communists not used to admitting mistakes, Bierut dies, freaks out all other communists, really dumb idea).
-Gets rid of Rakosi. Re-enters Hungary, kills a lot of people.
Section 8: China & Khrushchev
-China helps Khrushchev suppress Hungarian uprising.
-Mao not consulted about Khrushchev’s insane speech against Stalin.
-Mao differs in action, doesn’t want to reform peasants as much.
-Mao has a Great Leap Forward, kills people.
Section 9: The Wall
-Rest of world is not aware of what is going on.
-Everyone is vulnerable, scared, etc.
-East Germans riot, leave. They built a giant wall, August 1961, with other precautions. NO ONE CAN LEAVE!
Section 10:
-Capitalism succeeding, outside of wall.
-No one knows what to do about problems.
-Marxism & successors didn’t do too well with actual humans.
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