anticommunism
Against collective ideology
Anticommunism is opposition to communist ideology, movements, or governments.
The term covers a broad spectrum from reasoned political disagreement to intense ideological hostility, and has motivated everything from democratic activism to authoritarian repression.
In the United States, anticommunism peaked during the Cold War era, driving both foreign policy and domestic movements like McCarthyism.
His anticommunism shaped his entire political career.
Politically-motivated accusation without evidence
- red scareMass anti-communist hysteria
- blacklistRecord of prohibited entities
- witch-huntPersecution of supposed subversives
- HUACRed Scare congressional committee
loyalty oath · purge · persecution · subversion · espionage · counterintelligence · informant · surveillance
Preventing hostile expansion
- NATOWestern defense organization
- Truman DoctrinePolicy opposing communist expansion
- Marshall PlanPostwar American economic assistance
- Berlin AirliftAllied supply mission, 1948
domino theory · Cuban Missile Crisis · Korean War · Vietnam War · arms race · space race · detente · Berlin Wall
Private profit-based economy
- free-marketUnregulated private exchange
- democracyRule by the people
- libertyAbsence of unjust constraint
- individualismDoctrine of personal independence
private property · liberalism · conservatism · libertarianism · neoliberalism · laissez-faire · human rights · constitutionalism
Political art for causes
- leafletsBrief printed information sheets
- broadcastsTransmissions for public reception
- CIAU.S. foreign intelligence service
- KGBUSSR intelligence service
disinformation · psychological warfare · pamphlets · poster · film · documentary · indoctrination · messaging
Right-wing anticommunist advocacy group
- SolidarityPolish trade union movement
- samizdatClandestine dissident publishing
- dissidentOpposer of established systems
- refusenikDeliberate noncomplier
Charter 77 · Tiananmen · mujahideen · freedom fighters · resistance · underground · exile · emigre
McCarthyism
Politically-motivated accusation without evidence
- red scareMass anti-communist hysteria
- blacklistRecord of prohibited entities
- witch-huntPersecution of supposed subversives
HUAC · loyalty oath · purge · persecution · subversion · espionage · counterintelligence · informant · surveillance · censorship
containment
Preventing hostile expansion
- NATOWestern defense organization
- Truman DoctrinePolicy opposing communist expansion
- Marshall PlanPostwar American economic assistance
Berlin Airlift · domino theory · Cuban Missile Crisis · Korean War · Vietnam War · arms race · space race · detente · Berlin Wall · proxy war
capitalism
Private profit-based economy
- free-marketUnregulated private exchange
- democracyRule by the people
- libertyAbsence of unjust constraint
individualism · private property · liberalism · conservatism · libertarianism · neoliberalism · laissez-faire · human rights · constitutionalism · rule of law
agitprop
Political art for causes
- leafletsBrief printed information sheets
- broadcastsTransmissions for public reception
- CIAU.S. foreign intelligence service
KGB · disinformation · psychological warfare · pamphlets · poster · film · documentary · indoctrination · messaging · fearmongering
John Birch Society
Right-wing anticommunist advocacy group
- SolidarityPolish trade union movement
- samizdatClandestine dissident publishing
- dissidentOpposer of established systems
refusenik · Charter 77 · Tiananmen · mujahideen · freedom fighters · resistance · underground · exile · emigre · asylum
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis
- TaiwanTaiwan, Taipei, Taichung, Formosa, Republic of China
- Postwar Korea38th parallel, U.S. occupation, Soviet occupation, military government, occupation forces
- ZaireMobutu, Zaire, Kinshasa, national currency
- internmentdetention camps, internment, penal colonies, camp guards, barbed wire
anticommunismcommunism
Collective ownership system
Marxism · Marxism-Leninism · Bolshevism · Maoism · Stalinism
anticommunismcollectivism
Group primacy doctrine
anti-capitalism · proletarian revolution · socialist economics · common ownership