Timeline for Why was most of Europe against communism right from the start?
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
7 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 2017 at 4:39 | comment | added | jamesqf | @Mark C. Wallace: Perhaps better to say that Fascism would kick the current political elite out of office, while Communism would hang them from the lamposts. | |
| Sep 1, 2017 at 20:54 | history | edited | MCW♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 371 characters in body
|
| Sep 1, 2017 at 20:52 | comment | added | MCW♦ | Fascism would remove the current political elite. Communism would remove everyone. | |
| Sep 1, 2017 at 20:49 | comment | added | user2520938 | Oke, this makes some sense, but not quite. To me it seems that no matter which ideology (communism or fascism) would gain traction in, say, France, the result would always be the removal of the current political elite. I get that on a ideological level the ruling class felt more at ease with fascism then communism, but from a practical point of view the outcome for them would be the same. So I still don't understand why they feared communism more then fascism. | |
| Sep 1, 2017 at 20:43 | history | edited | MCW♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 1727 characters in body
|
| Sep 1, 2017 at 19:13 | comment | added | jamesqf | I'd disagree on one point: I think that to a good many people, the opposition to religion might have been Communism's main redeeming feature. It promised a worldly sort of Heaven rather than vague images of a hypothetical afterlife: perhaps not that great a heaven, but you could get now instead of waiting for death. As society became more secular and the established churches lost power (especially after Darwin published the "Origin of Species"), this became less of a factor. | |
| Sep 1, 2017 at 14:33 | history | answered | MCW♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |