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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|| | 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> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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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 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
The history of the White Supremacist movement is the history of American anti-communism. [3]
References
- ↑ 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]
- ↑ Karl Marx. Manifesto of the communist party. Library link
- ↑ Lz. A., Edited by Roderic Day, Nia Frome (2004). A Brief History of American Vigilantism.