anti-communism
anti-communism is the alternative form of anticommunism.
Meaning of anticommunism
Noun
anticommunism (usually uncountable, plural anticommunisms)
- Opposition to communism.
- In the main, anticommunism in postwar America meant opposition to the kind of dictatorial state socialism that existed in Russia and that many Americans saw as a negation of everything America stood for. In the 1946 campaign, for example, when I talked about the "communist-dominated PAC," my...1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 47
Forms of anti-communism
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Origin of anti-communism
From anti- + communism.
Questions about anti-communism
- What is anti-communism the alternative form of?
- Anti-communism is the alternative form of anticommunism.
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