The US domestic reaction to Communist organizing is partially based on events in other countries, partially on fear, partially on experience with domestic communists and partially on the desire to continue to dominate society. To the extent it is overblown it can fairly be described as hysteria. I have (on another website) included it as an example of social mania.
Fred
From: Viajero viajero@quilombo.nl Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 23:23:07 +0100 To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] User:LanceMurdoch
I am guessing that what LM thinks is that central issues of the Red Scare were "infilitration" of the government and the labor movement and so forth and not atrocities in distant lands and to use these matters after the fact to justify the Red Scares may be a subtle bit of POV. I think he has a point.
After sending the my last message, I noticed that he summarized this edit with:
The Red Scare was a US domestic issue, some of the issues are still disputed
so my analysis was correct.
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