CONFLICTING IDEOLOGIES

• WESTERN CAPITALISM


  -free market economies - enabled competition and the free exchange of goods without government intervention, businesses would compete and any individual was free to join the competition if they wanted

  • capitalist democracy advocated for political freedom and the right of every citizen to have a choice of how their country was led(free elections)
• USSR AND COMMUNISM


  -founded by Karl Marx who believed that capitalism led to the exploitation of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie in order to strengthen their economic dominance and political control

  -Lenin modified Marxist thinking by establishing leninismas the means by which Marxism would be transferred int o reality rather than a theory

  -when Stalin became leader of the USSR he modified leninism to suit his needs, he created the ‘cult of personality’ and promoted himself as the infallible interpreter of communist ideology
• CAPITALISM VS MARXISM


  both sides were certain that its ideology should dominate in as many nations as possible and each viewed the expansion of the other as a threat