It was called "The Red Scare" for a reason. There was NO REAL THREAT - it was a manufactured narrative - Communists (and they were NOT Communists in reality - Stalin NEVER was) were not going to destroy and conquer the Americas. It was geopolitics, empire games, and Capitalism.
>>"at the discretion of bankers, paid employees more during a time period when - rightly or wrongly - a second or alternative system was still out there in the world"
Seriously? Is that the narrative you CHOOSE to believe? That there was REAL Communism? And that it was a REAL threat?
I suggest studying American economic history to understand the motivations behind different policies (and the resulting changes in socio-economic classes) rather than believing false narratives propagated by the Capitalists.
What exactly do you want to compare? Whether the threat of Communism was real or not? Or about US Economic history. Or whether Soviet Communism was real Communism? (it was not - real communism has NEVER existed anywhere in the world - it has been a theory that has been badly implemented by authoritarians and others).
How does "killing hope" figure into this discussion? The US was NOT fighting Communism (which never existed) - it was fighting an alternative system to Capitalism. Yes, many people will disagree with the definition of Communism - does ANYONE know how it would really work in real life? i.e. the knitty-gritty details and how the economic system would work? Not even Marx knew - he wrote 3 volumes (actually 6) on how Capitalism works (Das Kapital and Theories of Surplus Value).
>>"...the "threat" of Soviet communism..."
It was called "The Red Scare" for a reason. There was NO REAL THREAT - it was a manufactured narrative - Communists (and they were NOT Communists in reality - Stalin NEVER was) were not going to destroy and conquer the Americas. It was geopolitics, empire games, and Capitalism.
>>"at the discretion of bankers, paid employees more during a time period when - rightly or wrongly - a second or alternative system was still out there in the world"
Seriously? Is that the narrative you CHOOSE to believe? That there was REAL Communism? And that it was a REAL threat?
I suggest studying American economic history to understand the motivations behind different policies (and the resulting changes in socio-economic classes) rather than believing false narratives propagated by the Capitalists.
What exactly do you want to compare? Whether the threat of Communism was real or not? Or about US Economic history. Or whether Soviet Communism was real Communism? (it was not - real communism has NEVER existed anywhere in the world - it has been a theory that has been badly implemented by authoritarians and others).
How does "killing hope" figure into this discussion? The US was NOT fighting Communism (which never existed) - it was fighting an alternative system to Capitalism. Yes, many people will disagree with the definition of Communism - does ANYONE know how it would really work in real life? i.e. the knitty-gritty details and how the economic system would work? Not even Marx knew - he wrote 3 volumes (actually 6) on how Capitalism works (Das Kapital and Theories of Surplus Value).