Anti-communism

Anti-communism or anticommunism is a term for any ideology or movement which opposes the spread of communism. Before the Second World War, anti-communism was often associated with anti-Semitism, but after the events of the Holocaust, this became patently unviable, and a new form of anti-communism was formulated based on a new opposition between liberal individualism and totalitarian collectivism. Starting in the 1940s, the United States used its covert and overt influence to spread this ideology throughout the world, suppressing opposing media organizations, political parties, and even academics in favor of anti-communist groups and even left-wing anti-communists such as postmodernists and anarchists. Modern anti-communists tend to sound strikingly alike regardless of ideological persuasion, indicating the lasting influence of this propaganda blitz, and modern academia shows similar degeneration even in the wake of the fall of the Eastern Bloc and subsequent revelations from the Soviet archives.