list ideas of Marx. In the fifties what America and the other democratic nations were beginning to learn about these places is that they were the most abhorrent strippers of human values and rights. Especially the paranoid dictator Joseph Stalin who took the kill first and ask questions later approach to problems. Stalinist Russia had some of the worst of the worlds slave labor camps known as the Gulag Archipelago. Whitfeild showed where our fears were manifested the best by giving credit to Stalinist Russia for the largest killing fields of the twentieth century.Nazism sympathy never quite spread over here like Stalinism did. In its pure form it stressed the brotherhood of the common people that made up the land. These thoughts were easily appealing to many people. Before the war communist and socialist ideas were quite on the rise here because the depression emphasized capitalisms push towards the lonely individual and how free enterprise basically failed. Whitfeild refers to these communists who feel that they are progressives as Stalinists because they stand for ending American civil liberties that they saw as only for the upper class. So Whitfield argues that it is wrong to extend much sympathy to these American communists as their rights were wrongfully stripped away because this stripping of rights is what they aspired for everyone in the end. This new war grew out of the last war where we fought for the pure practices known as the Four Freedoms. Russia was our ally here and fought with us to protect these ideals of basic freedoms. To protect our self from the infiltration of these evil policies the United States wound up ending the freedom of speech and the freedom of fear. Whitfeild feels that America violated what we stood for during this time.This Red Scare of communist infiltration was an invisible foe which, according to Whitfeild, made it quite aware to political leaders that finding the source and ending it was impossible...
