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Anti-communism is political and ideological opposition to communist beliefs, groups, and individuals. Organized anti-communism developed after the 1917 October Revolution in Russia, and it reached global dimensions during the Cold War, when the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in an intense rivalry.
After the victory of the Chinese Communist Party in the Second Chinese Civil War, some anti-Communist Mainlanders moved southward to Hong Kong to establish their roots, including members of the Kuomintang, intellectuals and capitalists.
Anti-communism in China has a long history. Before the Chinese Communist Revolution , anti-communist policies were implemented by the Kuomintang (KMT) and conservative warlords . Today, anti-communism in mainland China and among overseas Chinese is sometimes associated with protest movements and support for liberal democracy .
Critics contend that anti anti-communism is an attempt to downplay Soviet espionage and the threat posed by communism, and that it is a form of whataboutism. Supporters respond that they are not downplaying the excesses and crimes of Communist states or rehabilitating real socialism but are trying to contextualize them within a comparative ...
Better dead than red" and the reverse "better red than dead" are dueling slogans regarding communism, and generally socialism, the former a anti-communist slogan ("rather dead than a communist"), and the latter a pro-communist slogan ("rather a communist than dead"). The slogans are interlingual with a variety of variants amongst them.
Anti-communism developed as soon as communism became a conscious political movement in the 19th century, and anti-communist mass killings have been reported against alleged communists, or their alleged supporters, which were committed by anti-communists and political organizations or governments opposed to communism. The communist movement has ...
McCarthyism was supported by a variety of groups, including the American Legion and various other anti-communist organizations. One core element of support was a variety of militantly anti-communist women's groups such as the American Public Relations Forum and the Minute Women of the U.S.A.
In 1949, anti-communist fear, and fear of American traitors, was aggravated by the Chinese Communists winning the Chinese Civil War against the Western-sponsored Kuomintang, their founding of the Communist China, and later China intervenes (October–December 1950) in the Korean War (1950–1953) against U.S. ally South Korea.