What Is The Fear Of Communism

The fear of communism throughout the United States grew rapidly during the Red Scare. Communism means that private property would be abolished and the community would own everything. At the very minimum, production and natural resources would all be owned by the community. Karl Marx, who lived from 1818 to 1883, was a strong believer in communism. Marx publicized the idea in 1848. He studied and wrote about it, along with socialism, a similar idea to communism.
Communism didn’t become a large issue until November of 1917. Vladimir Lenin took control of Bolsheviks and led them to take over Russia. In 1919, the Communist Labor Party was formed in the United States. The Attorney General of the United States, Alexander Mitchell Palmer, tried assiduously