... and generally had to be protected by countries like Britain in the past. These countries were able to use this assistance to maintain self sufficiency and combat the idealistic viewpoints of socialistic communism that seemed very ideal to many people at the time. The strong aggression the soviets had directly after WWII in 1945 pushed America to conclude with the Marshall plan ... as an attempt to win back some of the countries the Soviet union had already taken. After the war, ... ;totalitarian regimes," because the spread of authoritarianism would "undermine the foundations of internat...

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... Press is the most difficult to explain. To understand it fully, we must be familiar with nineteenth- and twentieth-century world history, Marxist ideals, Russian and Soviet history, and the weakness and strengths of the capitalist system. The Intellectual Climate in which Four Theories was written ∆ The choice to describe a "Soviet" theory rather than a "Marxist" theory tells us that highlighting the ... and Soviet values was a key goal. It also implies a desire to separate liberal, intellectual acceptance of some Marxist doctrines in the 1950s from an approval of press controls and s...

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... exploited from the developing world, and hold a double standard in terms of human rights without paying a price no longer stands to reason. Demanding the sacrifice of American wealth and subjugation to the authority of international bodies in exchange for security may demand an equal sacrifice in re-election prospects. As the tangible results of such a strategy would likely take much longer than the current ... election cycle, and with the possibility of further attacks in the short run undermining faith in such a pursuit, few politicians ... very difficult to sell to America people, t...

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