Akshat Katoch. Mrs. Hollstein. Ap Lang. 16 March 2017.

Akshat Katoch Mrs. Hollstein AP Lang 16 March 2017 The concoction of communist regime caused paranoia within the people which lead to riots. The history of the Soviet Union greatly contributed to this unjustified fear. During the nineteenth century, Karl Marx, a revolutionary socialist, wrote the â€Å"Communist Manifesto† which presented the idea of Communism. In this political ideal, property is publicly owned and workers are paid to extent of their abilities and needs. Nowhere does the theory state dictatorship or any type of totalitarian government. This revolutionary speculation remains as Russia’s greatest achievements in history and unforgotten. However when Vladimir Lenin took control of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1917,†¦show more content†¦A paranoid author from The Chronicles of Higher Education states how the â€Å"government is undermining the peer-review system and the norms of scholarship†. This writer does not realize that the government looks into certain aspects of educat ion to make sure the system is running efficiently. Fear of oppression persists and causes delusion in society where reality becomes a myth. McCarthyism fanatics inculcated fear in Americans through propaganda which fabricated a lie that a Communist society is a dictatorship, while in reality the government symbolizes utopia. Americans need to enlighten themselves from the delusional hate directed at countries with autocratic systems which are labeled as Communists. The American mentality played a major role in the growing support for McCarthyism. They believed America was â€Å"stupendous, and mutable† and â€Å"it would be the rankest presumption to approach it in a classifying, scientific way†(Afterimage). This mindset set Americans to believe they were above others and no one would attempt espionage. However when soviet spies were caught by officials, this threw society into chaos as they realized they are not impervious to other countries’ influences. Ther efore the people understood that Russia was attempting to reveal their secrets and connected this to the Communist ideology. However in addition to the American arrogance, they also lacked historical knowledge to support their paranoia.