What is the root of the American peoplea people that is in the thicket of globalization, a people that is receiving a great number of new immigrants, and a people that lacks a common culture, common race and common religion? What does it use to pull people together? The American historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. explains this way: the United States needs values such as democracy, freedom and human rights now more than any period in its history to keep the country together. From this perspective, the U.S. foreign policy also has to accordingly reflect these American ideals, because after all, diplomacy simply serves domestic politics. Thus, to display more American ideology and pursuit of democracy in U.S. foreign policy has meant a more robust display of American hegemony in its diplomacy.
This is a direct contradiction of most Communist ideology which views imperialistic movements as anti-democratic and the last stage of capitalism. None of that is reflected within this article.