House of Spirits Ideology

The ideological concept I can relate to in the book is when Senator Trueba is warning of the potential Socialist overthrow of the government. Being a history major I've read how the rise of Marxism was such a scare at the time. There had been investigations of countless numbers of people here in America alone. The threat of Marxism is still aparent today, but we do not consider it as much of a threat to our democratic way of life.