How do you think the Marshall plan reduced the appeal of capitalism?

Answer 1

There are people who desperately need help, but if you give it to them they will curse you. The Marshall plan made nations dependent on the US and a great many resented it. They saw communism as preferable.

Answer 2

It didn't. The Marshall Plan did more to protect against communism to to build it up. If the plan did anything it contributed to a rise of Socialism in the countries in which it was practiced. Socialism is not communism.

To understand the Europe that emerged from the Second World War was the Depression and the Revolution in Russia. Europe had been in hard straits before the war unlike the United States or Germany the war didn't lead to the recovery that occurred in those countries. That plus the fact that there was a strong socialist movement in France and England that had been straightened by the Spanish Civil War. This lead to Socialized Medical Plans to be adapted by those countries in 1945.

Capitalism can't stand with this because there is part of the money already spent at the time that it is made so the work force is working harder for less based on what you lose for your medical plans and all American Capitalism has been modified to allow for this but the Europeans were not ready for this so they modified Socialism for their systems and that could explain Europe today.

Answer 3

Communism, YAWN.