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  • noun Opposition to communism.

Etymologies

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anti- + communism

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Examples

  • Huey Long once said that if fascism ever came to the United States, it would come in the name of anticommunism.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

  • Huey Long once said that if fascism ever came to the United States, it would come in the name of anticommunism.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

  • Indeed, other than a primitive anticommunism which is but the obverse sign of a verbally truculent hometown jingoism, he has no foreign policy.

    Know Thy President Hoffman, Nicholas von 1981

  • So did anticommunism in the Cold War era, and so does support for the Iraq and Afghan wars today.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Finally, religion has often provided motivation and mobilization for conservative political movements, such as prohibition, anticommunism, and, as we discuss in more detail in Chapter 11, the contemporary Religious Right.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Regarding the execrable pact between Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, which shocked many former communist sympathizers into lives of anticommunism, Mr. Hobsbawm dismisses the "zig-zags and turns of Comintern and Soviet policy," specifically the "about-turn of 1939-41," which "need not detain us here."

    How a True Believer Keeps the Faith Michael Moynihan 2011

  • Had they done so, they would have unknowingly dealt anticommunism a frightful blow.

    The Zealot 2009

  • But the real problem with Mr. Deaver's Bond is that he's so devoid of personality, unmotivated by a consuming ideological passion like Fleming's anticommunism, so frequently contrasted with John le Carré's supposedly more sophisticated Cold War moral equivalence and unburdened by emotional complexity.

    You Only Live About 23 Times Michael C. Moynihan 2011

  • The populism as anticommunism, the nationalism and the empowerment of the central government which Roosevelt employed ran amok in Germany.

    Matthew Yglesias » Culture and Size and Scope of Government 2010

  • He was noted for his conservative Republicanism, his fervent anticommunism, and his appealing personal style, characterized by a jaunty affability and folksy charm.

    Five People Born on February 6 | myFiveBest 2010

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