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Why the western world didnt accept communism?

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Note that Marx and Engels who started it were German, i.e. pretty much Western. So it would surely be foolish to say that the West has never anything to do with communism.

But Russia – and similar nations in the East – turned out to be optimum for the introduction of Marxism because an unhealthily huge fraction of their population was composed of the uniform poor working class – and the poor peasants in the countryside. And these people simply had enough motivation and physical strength to defeat everyone else – although it wasn’t quite trivial even in Russia.

In comparison, the Western nations were always much more structured. Aside from many workers and peasants, there were lots of intellectuals, aristocrats, their fans, lots of self-employed people working in lots of crafts, and so on. So a regime promoting the dictatorship of a single class just couldn’t ever succeed – because no class has ever become that dominant in the healthy, diverse Western societies where the “classes” were always so numerous and their boundaries were fuzzy and penetrable. The diversity of activities and classes in the West is of course a characteristic that quantifies the West’s relative superiority – the West has been more advanced for centuries while the East was underdeveloped and always acted as some buffer zone protecting the West from some dangerous “far East” or Asia.

After the USSR was created and especially after the Second World War, the reason above was supplemented with another one: the East-West polarization. Stalin was simply seen as a threat for the whole nations in the West – not only those who were loudly anti-communist in them – which is why Stalin and all his potential allies had to be treated with suspicion and suppressed (McCarthyism is a well-known example), in a way that was somewhat analogous to (but not equally extreme as) the suppression of the enemies of communism in the Soviet bloc.

The previous paragraph describes the history, not the current situation. Today, the relevant left-wing ideology isn’t Marxism building on the working class anymore. Instead, it’s the cultural Marxism and it’s the geographic West where this ideology strengthened immensely while it’s the geographic East which is rather immune towards this new big threat.