Cold War rivals shared a common secular-modern ideological language

Evidence

The conflict between liberal democracy and Marxist-Leninism was between ideologies which, despite their major differences, were both modern and secular and ostensibly shared ultimate goals of freedom, equality, and material well-being. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 387

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the ‘end of history’ debate and to Arendt/other thinkers on the common Enlightenment roots of both Western and Marxist thought. — connects to: Postwar France saw America and the Soviet Union as rival visions of the future — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 546; Cold War rivalry led US agencies to fund state-led socialist-style development abroad. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1294; Soviet delegates attacked ‘civilised nations’ language as a Cold War universalisation tactic — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 77