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The reasons would be both historical and ideological. The end of WW2 saw the western powers and Soviet Union join in an alliance that thwarted the Nazi plans of

The reasons would be both historical and ideological. The end of WW2 saw the western powers and Soviet Union join in an alliance that thwarted the Nazi plans of a world empire where a master race (white folks) would be explicitly and morally entitled to enslave the rest of the world. Such an ideology is an anathema to liberal democracy and communists alike, and formed one basis of the alliance that crushed the Nazis. Only after the war and the common enemy was defeated did the split between liberal democracy and communism become the main conflict, and even then it rarely escalated to hot war. BTW, to evaluate ideologies based on counting the dead in conflicts between powers, or on number of victims in famines that occur because of failed policies implies ideological and historical ignorance, despite the popularity of such blame games on social media. But it shows that people are getting fed up with all the killing at least.

varispeed 6y ago
You are most likely unable to choose the class you are born into, so where you belong is outside your control, in a similar way to the colour of your skin. In that respect I fail to see how Communism is different from Nazism. In both systems the outcome is that part of the population becomes enslaved, they only had different criteria who is going to suffer.
- stareatgoats 6y ago
  If your method of understanding the world consist of constructing hypothetical scenarios like that you will not be able to understand history. History isn't shaped by considerations such as "x has some common traits with y and therefore x and y should be treated the same" (leaving aside the whole discussion of what actually constitutes common traits). Case in point, you had a question which you couldn't answer through that method. I gave you an explanation that explains the need for another method (study of the historical events in their context); you came back insisting that history should bend to your will. You might be surprised to learn that doesn't work like that, eventually.

varispeed 6y ago

You are most likely unable to choose the class you are born into, so where you belong is outside your control, in a similar way to the colour of your skin. In that respect I fail to see how Communism is different from Nazism. In both systems the outcome is that part of the population becomes enslaved, they only had different criteria who is going to suffer.

stareatgoats 6y ago
If your method of understanding the world consist of constructing hypothetical scenarios like that you will not be able to understand history. History isn't shaped by considerations such as "x has some common traits with y and therefore x and y should be treated the same" (leaving aside the whole discussion of what actually constitutes common traits). Case in point, you had a question which you couldn't answer through that method. I gave you an explanation that explains the need for another method (study of the historical events in their context); you came back insisting that history should bend to your will. You might be surprised to learn that doesn't work like that, eventually.