Talk:Anti-communism

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Hyphenation: "Anticommunism" or "Anti-communism"
I think the spelling without hyphenation (Anticommunism) is more correct. In any case, "Anticommunism" is also used and should be included. 93.45.229.98 (talk) 09:23, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

Part on connection to Anti-Semitism
Historically, Anti-Communism and Anti-Semitism have been strongly linked.

Obviously you have the Nazis and Judeo Bolshevism, but there are also things like how the Protocols of the Elders of Zion make reference to "Jews using Communism" to conquer the world and such or the KKK which also played into this idea of Jewish Communism. It was a very common idea, and still exists as a conspiracy today on the far-right. I think this should be included? Genabab (talk) 21:50, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Examples of anti-communist political positions
The third sentence of the article mentions that Anti-communism has been an element of many movements and different political positions across the political spectrum, then goes on to list examples of these: including anarchism, centrism, conservatism, fascism, liberalism, nationalism, social democracy, socialism, leftism, and libertarianism. Some inclusions are problematic, because communism is itself a tradition of socialism and left-wing politics. Under interpretations of "communism" which do not conflate and equate it to "Marxism–Leninism", there are some of the largest anarchist and left-libertarian schools of thought that aren't anti-communist. What we're left with in the list are centrism, conservatism, fascism, liberalism, nationalism, and social democracy.

The sentence could be reworded to state some schools of thought (of anarchism, socialism, and libertarianism; within left-wing politics) rather than entire positions may possess anti-communist elements, or the list of examples could be removed entirely. –Vipz (talk) 12:56, 24 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Looking for sources, I was able to find György Széll on Anticommunism in Korea and Germany in times of Cold War, which has the following:
 * Gesine Schwan (1999) sees four forms of anti-communism for Germany: 1. Anti-communism of the social-democratic left, 2. liberal anti-communism, 3. anti-communism in the further bourgeois spectre of the bourgeoisie, 4. ‘anti-democratic’ anti-communism (National Socialism).
 * [...] These are in general amalgamated by anti-communist policies and ideologies, which also produce diverse forms of anti-communism, anti-socialism, anti-Bolshevism (Generalsekretariat zum Studium des Bolschewismus 1975; Jakowlew 2004; Rebatet 1940) and anti-anarchism: reactionary, fascist, liberal, conservative.
 * [...] These independence movements were quite often led by socialists, communists, anarchists et al. In parallel, class struggles started everywhere too. Workers began to organize themselves in trade unions and political parties, which gained in many countries influence and power. Partly until today, they were fought by capitalists, conservatives, liberals and others through oppression, by law or by ‘buying’ them.
 * In the latter two, socialism, anarchism, and communism are contrasted together against other ideologies, while the first focuses on Germany. –Vipz (talk) 20:09, 24 September 2023 (UTC)