One measure employed during the Cold War was to question prospective citizens about whether they had ever been members of the Communist Party, a recognition that communism was an ideology fundamentally hostile to the American way of life.
The ideology of communism is long gone, and the legitimacy of the ruling party depends upon economic growth and ethnic Han nationalism.
In the Cold War, freedom defeated the ideology of communism and led to a democratic movement that freed the nations of Eastern and Central Europe from Soviet domination and today these nations are allies in the war on terror.
The first thing we have to do about it - about the problem posed by Shariah and its adherents, is recognize it, is understand it for what it is, is address it as the same kind of toxic, totalitarian, brutally repressive and ultimately seditious ideology that communism has long been understood to be.
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W. Bush was bedeviled by concerns that "the system" was not accurately understanding the magnitude of the threat posed by the last great totalitarian ideology: Soviet communism.
This is especially so for all who recall the historic commitment that organization made to the Nation's past death-struggle against a hostile ideology with global ambitions - Soviet communism - and who understand that we currently confront a no-less-dangerous ideology in Islamofascism.
An ideology which believes, as communism did, that a small group of self-selected possessors of the truth will get everything right is bound to produce disaster.
Not particularly objectionable, but a pale comparison to the principled and robust opposition to the totalitarian ideology of the day, Soviet Communism, enunciated fifty years before by William F.
Critics at home and abroad say the amendment dismantles the architecture of democracy established since the fall of communism, and allows Fidesz to cement its own ideology at the heart of the state.
As thinkers like Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek or Karl Popper, and indeed the amazing death toll of communism itself have shown, coercion and violence are deeply embedded in that ideology.
The US was driven by Cold War concerns about the spread of communism, particularly "domino theory" the idea that if one Asian nation fell to the leftist ideology, others would quickly follow.
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