ABSTRACT
McCarthyism represents a curious phenomenon in the ideological history of the United States. McCarthyism thrust itself into the limelight after some notorious political trials that marked the final phase of Truman’s presidency. In spite of the nonracist stance of McCarthy’s official ideology, there is a common denominator with Hiterlism: an antiscientific interpretation of history. The analogy between McCarthyism and Stalinism results from the fact that they are both authoritarian ideologies, whether right or left being immaterial. Stalinist political consciousness was characterized by the existence of curious “perverse equations,” which are invariably unscientific, for example, “social fascism” or “Hitlero-Trotskyism.” McCarthyism can be compared to Stalinist logie by virtue of the fact that it had its own system of "perverse equations". The McCarthyist conception of history contains a sui generis structuring of historical time. McCarthy was obviously antagonistic to the idea of personal historicity.
