anticommunists
Foes of Marxism
Anticommunists are people who oppose communism as a political system or ideology.
The term covers a wide spectrum—from democratic socialists rejecting Soviet-style governance to far-right movements using anticommunism to justify authoritarian measures.
During the Cold War, anticommunist sentiment shaped foreign policy and domestic politics across the West: McCarthyism targeted suspected anticommunists in Hollywood and government.
The label can be neutral or carry connotations depending on context.
Politically-motivated accusation without evidence
- Cold WarProlonged East-West standoff
- Red ScareAnti-communist hysteria period
- blacklistRecord of prohibited entities
- HUACRed Scare congressional committee
dissidents · reactionaries · right-wing · conservatives · nationalists · anti-Soviet · hardliners · hawks
Policy opposing communist expansion
- Iron CurtainCold War's political divide
- Berlin WallCold War partition
- Korean War1950s peninsula conflict
- Vietnam WarCold-era Indochina military engagement
Bay of Pigs · Reagan · Thatcher · Solidarity · Pinochet · Franco · Chiang Kai-shek · apartheid
Private profit-based economy
- free marketCommerce without state intervention
- democracyRule by the people
- libertyAbsence of unjust constraint
- individualismDoctrine of personal independence
private property · Western values · freedom · self-determination · human rights · religion · traditionalism · nationalism
Worker collectives for negotiations
- SolidarityPolish trade union movement
- dissidentsPolitical objectors
- samizdatClandestine dissident publishing
- undergroundBelow ground or countercultural
resistance · uprising · Charter 77 · Velvet Revolution · Prague Spring · Hungarian Revolution · Tiananmen · refuseniks
McCarthyism
Politically-motivated accusation without evidence
- Cold WarProlonged East-West standoff
- Red ScareAnti-communist hysteria period
- blacklistRecord of prohibited entities
HUAC · dissidents · reactionaries · right-wing · conservatives · nationalists · anti-Soviet · hardliners · hawks · witch hunt
Truman Doctrine
Policy opposing communist expansion
- Iron CurtainCold War's political divide
- Berlin WallCold War partition
- Korean War1950s peninsula conflict
Vietnam War · Bay of Pigs · Reagan · Thatcher · Solidarity · Pinochet · Franco · Chiang Kai-shek · apartheid · mujahideen
capitalism
Private profit-based economy
- free marketCommerce without state intervention
- democracyRule by the people
- libertyAbsence of unjust constraint
individualism · private property · Western values · freedom · self-determination · human rights · religion · traditionalism · nationalism · conservatism
labor unions
Worker collectives for negotiations
- SolidarityPolish trade union movement
- dissidentsPolitical objectors
- samizdatClandestine dissident publishing
underground · resistance · uprising · Charter 77 · Velvet Revolution · Prague Spring · Hungarian Revolution · Tiananmen · refuseniks · escapees
- Anti-Communistsdefectors, dissidents, counterrevolutionaries, freedom fighters, Joseph McCarthy
anticommunistscommunists
Collective ownership advocates
Marxists · Bolsheviks · socialists · Stalinists · Maoists