anti-communism
Against Marxist ideology
Anti-communism is opposition to communist ideology, movements, or governments.
The term spans a wide political range—from democratic socialists who reject Soviet-style systems to far-right movements that conflate any leftist policy with communism.
During the Cold War, anti-communism drove Western foreign policy and domestic politics: McCarthyism was anti-communism at its most paranoid.
The stance can be principled or opportunistic, intellectual or hysterical.
Record of prohibited entities
- purgeEliminate unwanted elements
- witch-huntPersecution of supposed subversives
- red-baitingTarring opponents as communists
- scapegoatingUnfairly assigning fault to innocents
denouncing · loyalty oath · HUAC · show trials · informants · surveillance · imprisonment · deportation
Politically-motivated accusation without evidence
- Red ScareAnti-communist hysteria period
- containmentPreventing hostile expansion
- Truman DoctrinePolicy opposing communist expansion
- Iron CurtainCold War's political divide
Berlin Wall · NATO · Warsaw Pact · domino theory · Cuban Missile Crisis · Korean War · Vietnam War · Marshall Plan
Private profit-based economy
- free marketCommerce without state intervention
- libertarianismMinimal-government political philosophy
- conservatismPreference for existing institutions
- laissez-faireNoninterference in commerce
privatization · individualism · democracy · liberty · freedom · free enterprise · property rights · anti-socialism
Political art for causes
- disinformationIntentional deceptive falsehoods
- leafletsBrief printed information sheets
- pamphletsThin informational booklets
- postersPrinted wall advertisements
broadcasts · brainwashing · indoctrination · fearmongering · paranoia · subversion · fifth column · ideological warfare
Totalitarian Communist doctrine
- MaoismPeasant-centered communist doctrine
- Marxism-LeninismState-led revolutionary socialism
- LeninismVanguard-led revolutionary doctrine
- TrotskyismRevolutionary socialist theory opposing bureaucracy
Bolshevism · totalitarianism · dictatorship · one-party state · collectivization · central planning · KGB · secret police
Right-wing anticommunist advocacy group
- anti-SovietOpposing USSR policies
- SolidarityPolish trade union movement
- samizdatClandestine dissident publishing
- underground pressRadical countercultural publishing network
freedom fighters · resistance · counterrevolutionary · White Army · Contras · mujahideen · labor unions · AFL-CIO
blacklist
Record of prohibited entities
- purgeEliminate unwanted elements
- witch-huntPersecution of supposed subversives
- red-baitingTarring opponents as communists
scapegoating · denouncing · loyalty oath · HUAC · show trials · informants · surveillance · imprisonment · deportation · execution
McCarthyism
Politically-motivated accusation without evidence
- Red ScareAnti-communist hysteria period
- containmentPreventing hostile expansion
- Truman DoctrinePolicy opposing communist expansion
Iron Curtain · Berlin Wall · NATO · Warsaw Pact · domino theory · Cuban Missile Crisis · Korean War · Vietnam War · Marshall Plan · détente
capitalism
Private profit-based economy
- free marketCommerce without state intervention
- libertarianismMinimal-government political philosophy
- conservatismPreference for existing institutions
laissez-faire · privatization · individualism · democracy · liberty · freedom · free enterprise · property rights · anti-socialism · neoliberalism
agitprop
Political art for causes
- disinformationIntentional deceptive falsehoods
- leafletsBrief printed information sheets
- pamphletsThin informational booklets
posters · broadcasts · brainwashing · indoctrination · fearmongering · paranoia · subversion · fifth column · ideological warfare · psychological operations
Stalinism
Totalitarian Communist doctrine
- MaoismPeasant-centered communist doctrine
- Marxism-LeninismState-led revolutionary socialism
- LeninismVanguard-led revolutionary doctrine
Trotskyism · Bolshevism · totalitarianism · dictatorship · one-party state · collectivization · central planning · KGB · secret police · Stasi
John Birch Society
Right-wing anticommunist advocacy group
- anti-SovietOpposing USSR policies
- SolidarityPolish trade union movement
- samizdatClandestine dissident publishing
underground press · freedom fighters · resistance · counterrevolutionary · White Army · Contras · mujahideen · labor unions · AFL-CIO
- PortugalLisbon, Porto, Algarve, Oporto, Madeira
- conservatismconservative, traditionalism, fiscal conservative, small government, free enterprise
- Truman EraTruman, Truman Doctrine, Fair Deal, buck stops here, whistle-stop tour
- US Politicsconservatism, ballot, liberalism, bill, constitutionalism
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis
- IndonesiaIndonesia, Java, Sumatra, Indonesian, Borneo
anti-communismcommunism
Collective ownership system
Marxism · Marxism-Leninism · Bolshevism · Leninism · Stalinism
anti-communismanti-capitalism
Opposition to market economies
revolutionary politics · anti-imperialism · non-alignment · neutralism