Contrary to the common description of the cold war as a conflict between east and west, communism was a prototypically western ideology, with roots in the European enlightenment.

• 与“冷战是东西方之间冲突”这一通常描述相反的是，共产主义原型上是西方思想的一个派别，它植根于欧洲的启蒙运动。