Ideological competition during the era of the 20th century cold war: The political economy of persuasion with a Trojan horse

There have been revolutions, and wars have been fought over ideology. Ideological competition at the more benign level of intellectual thought involves different views and theories of the preferred organization of society. In the ideological contest between socialism and capitalism, Marxian theory is consistent with a society being best served by a command economy in a one-party state with collective property, and, for capitalism, western economic theory is expected to be consistent with societa