Similarities Between Soviet Union And Usa

Capitalism-communist antagonism between the Soviet Union and the USA arises from the conflict of ideologies held by each state. Marxism ideology is adopted by the Soviet Union as the rationalization for a communist government and covers both economy as the structure of society and the perceived weakness of capitalism. The structure of society is on the basis of labor and the exchange of goods, and the distribution of goods and money between classes.

A capitalist state ensures imbalance of power between the wealthy and the working class. This unevenness in terms of economy in a capitalist government is therefore synonymous with imperialism and outbreak of war according to Marxist theory. The influence of Marxist theory and political theorist V. Lenin conveniently coincided with the innate desire of leaders for justification of their want for power and the impatience in the pursuit of such. Soviet Ideologies therefore provide both frameworks for society and personal fulfillment of leaders, further influenced by a tradition of discipline and unchanged training methods of political figures.

The state of the soviet government and population is key to
Soviet training of governmental workers suggested that mistrust of the outside world was the secret in protecting the state. Despite the idea of Iron discipline within the soviet government, split within the party is evident. The contrast in ideals between young people coming into politics and those ‘old hands’ who didn’t follow suit with the western world in terms of political change post world war resulted in internal conflict. A party with split opinion in combination with the declining willingness of the population in terms of implemented forced labor saw cracks beneath the front convincing international states of soviet force and