Anti-communism

Anti-communism is a reactionary political ideology which opposes communism, usually promoted by capitalist propagandists who recognize communism as a threat to their power.

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 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.”

See also

• Non-Communist Left