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While organized anti-communism emerged in response to the [[October Revolution|Russian Revolution]] of 1917, bourgeois repression of working class movements was already enforced before that, notably in the repression against the [[Paris Commune]].<ref name=":0">{{Textcite|author=Fabio Giovannini|year=2004|title=Breve storia dell'anticomunismo|pdf=|city=Roma|publisher=Datanews Editrice|isbn=9788879812511|lg=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=6B0C93DFC9C70FADA5C6D9F07B3C3FA2|trans=Brief history of anti-communism|translang=Italian}}</ref>
While organized anti-communism emerged in response to the [[October Revolution|Russian Revolution]] of 1917, bourgeois repression of working class movements was already enforced before that, notably in the repression against the [[Paris Commune]].<ref name=":0">{{Textcite|author=Fabio Giovannini|year=2004|title=Breve storia dell'anticomunismo|pdf=|city=Roma|publisher=Datanews Editrice|isbn=9788879812511|lg=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=6B0C93DFC9C70FADA5C6D9F07B3C3FA2|trans=Brief history of anti-communism|translang=Italian}}</ref>


In the first paragraph of his 1848 ''[[Manifesto of the communist party]]'', [[Karl Marx]] references anti-communism already existent in his time: ''“All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise [the spectre of communism]: 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>
In the first paragraph of his 1848 ''[[Manifesto of the communist party]]'', [[Karl Marx]] references anti-communism already existent in his time: ''“All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise [the spectre of communism]: [[Giovanni Ferretti|Pope]] and [[Nikolai Pavlovich Romanov|Tsar]], [[Klemens von Metternich|Metternich]] and [[François Guizot|Guizot]], French Radicals and German police-spies.”''<ref>Karl Marx. ''Manifesto of the communist party.'' [[Library:Manifesto of the communist party|Library link]]</ref>


==History==
==History==


===Origins of anti-communism===
===Origins of anti-communism===
Bourgeois repression of communism can be traced as early as 1796,<ref name=":0" /> when the newly installed French bourgeois government ordered the arrest and execution of the [[Utopian socialism|utopian socialist]] François-Noël Babeuf, in a crackdown against the "Conspiracy of the Equals", a group of Jacobin revolutionaries who advocated for the abolition of [[private property]].
Bourgeois repression of communism can be traced as early as 1796,<ref name=":0" /> when the newly installed French bourgeois government ordered the arrest and execution of the [[Utopian socialism|utopian socialist]] [[François-Noël Babeuf]], in a crackdown against the "Conspiracy of the Equals", a group of Jacobin revolutionaries who advocated for the abolition of [[private property]].


Auguste Blanqui, another utopian socialist, was frequently persecuted and arrested during his lifetime.<ref name=":0" />
[[Auguste Blanqui]], another utopian socialist, was frequently persecuted and arrested during his lifetime.<ref name=":0" />


=== Reaction to October Revolution===
=== Reaction to October Revolution===
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===Anti-communism in the United States===
===Anti-communism in the United States===
[[File:1960s racist anti-communist poster.png|thumb|1960s anti-communist poster from the [[United States of America|United States]]. Notice the [[Racism|racist]] and [[Fascism|fascist]] ideology.|alt=|200x200px]]
[[File:1960s racist anti-communist poster.png|thumb|1960s anti-communist poster from the [[United States of America|United States]]. Notice the [[Racism|racist]] and [[Fascism|fascist]] ideology.|alt=|200x200px]]
The history of the White Supremacist movement is the history of American anti-communism. <ref name=":1">{{Textcite|author=Lz. A., Edited by  Roderic Day, Nia Frome|year=2004|title= A Brief History of American Vigilantism||web=https://redsails.org/a-brief-history-of-american-vigilantism/}}</ref>
[[File:Race mixing is communism.png|thumb|235x235px|More racist anti-communist propaganda]]
The history of the [[White supremacy|white supremacist]] movement in the [[United States of America|United States]] is the history of anti-communism. <ref name=":1">{{Textcite|author=Lz. A., Edited by  Roderic Day, Nia Frome|year=2004|title= A Brief History of American Vigilantism||web=https://redsails.org/a-brief-history-of-american-vigilantism/}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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[[Category:Anti-communism]]
[[Category:Anti-communism]]
[[Category:Right-wing ideologies]]

Revision as of 21:57, 27 October 2022

Anti-communist propaganda poster from the 1950's depicting the "sword of democracy" fighting against a hammer and sickle in the Philippines

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 of working class movements was already enforced before that, notably in the repression against the Paris Commune.[1]

In the first paragraph of his 1848 Manifesto of the communist party, Karl Marx references anti-communism already existent in his time: “All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise [the spectre of communism]: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.”[2]

History

Origins of anti-communism

Bourgeois repression of communism can be traced as early as 1796,[1] when the newly installed French bourgeois government ordered the arrest and execution of the utopian socialist François-Noël Babeuf, in a crackdown against the "Conspiracy of the Equals", a group of Jacobin revolutionaries who advocated for the abolition of private property.

Auguste Blanqui, another utopian socialist, was frequently persecuted and arrested during his lifetime.[1]

Reaction to October Revolution

Anti-communism in the United States

1960s anti-communist poster from the United States. Notice the racist and fascist ideology.
More racist anti-communist propaganda

The history of the white supremacist movement in the United States is the history of anti-communism. [3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Fabio Giovannini (2004). Brief history of anti-communism [Italian: Breve storia dell'anticomunismo]. Roma: Datanews Editrice. ISBN 9788879812511 [LG]
  2. Karl Marx. Manifesto of the communist party. Library link
  3. Lz. A., Edited by Roderic Day, Nia Frome (2004). A Brief History of American Vigilantism.

See also