ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about author's idea of peace movement. The conflict between the United States and the USSR, between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, between Communism and democracy provided the main interpretive frameworks for both the peace movement and its opponents. Within the peace movement there was debate on what the Cold War was really about. Some peace movement activists saw the United States as basically democratic, peace-loving, and good, and they saw Communism as evil and the Soviet Union as aggressive and expansionist. But they argued that using aggressive militarism to oppose Communism was counter productive. They presented a peace offensive as, in effect, a better strategy against Communism. They believed that their anti-Communism, in addition to being valid in its own right, would help legitimate peace advocacy within the political mainstream. Others saw such militant anti-Communism as promoting hatred among adversaries, undermining mutual understanding, and impeding peaceful reconciliation.
