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'''Anti-communism''' is a political ideology which opposes [[communism]], | '''Anti-communism''' is a [[reactionary]] political ideology which opposes [[communism]], usually promoted by [[capitalism|capitalist]] propagandists who recognize communism as a threat to their power. | ||
[[File:Stop Communism propaganda poster.jpg|thumb|255x255px|Anti-communist propaganda poster from the 1950's depicting the "sword of democracy" fighting against a hammer and sickle in the Philippines]] | |||
While organized anti-communism emerged in response to the [[October Revolution|Russian Revolution]] of 1917, bourgeois repression to working class movements was already enforced before that. In the first paragraph of his 1848 ''[[Manifesto of the communist party]]'', [[Karl Marx]] references anti-communism already existent in his time: ''“A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.”''<ref>Karl Marx. ''Manifesto of the communist party.'' [[Library:Manifesto of the communist party|Library link]]</ref> | |||
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== See also == | == See also == | ||
* [[Non-Communist Left]] | * [[Non-Communist Left]] | ||
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Anti-communism is a reactionary political ideology which opposes communism, usually promoted by capitalist propagandists who recognize communism as a threat to their power.
While organized anti-communism emerged in response to the Russian Revolution of 1917, bourgeois repression to working class movements was already enforced before that. In the first paragraph of his 1848 Manifesto of the communist party, Karl Marx references anti-communism already existent in his time: “A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.”[1]
References
- ↑ Karl Marx. Manifesto of the communist party. Library link