Huey Long once said that if fascism ever came to the United States, it would come in the name of anticommunism. ❋ 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. ❋ Hoffman, Nicholas Von (1981)
So did anticommunism in the Cold War era, and so does support for the Iraq and Afghan wars today. ❋ 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. ❋ 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." ❋ Michael Moynihan (2011)
Had they done so, they would have unknowingly dealt anticommunism a frightful blow. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Michael C. Moynihan (2011)
There the 1950s saw a starburst of books invoking him as a symbol of anticommunism and self-determination. ❋ Richard Carwardine (2011)
The populism as anticommunism, the nationalism and the empowerment of the central government which Roosevelt employed ran amok in Germany. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Steiner is particularly tough on Neville Chamberlain, taking him to task for being so blinded by anticommunism that he failed to appreciate how a British-French-Soviet alliance in the 1930s might have stopped Hitler's military expansion. ❋ Richard Overy (2011)
He had not only run on a platform of “change”; he had specified what changes he had in mind: lower taxes, less government regulation, sound money, tough anticommunism. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He was noted for his conservative Republicanism, his fervent anticommunism, and his appealing personal style, characterized by a jaunty affability and folksy charm. ❋ Unknown (2010)
To put it bluntly, the deadly struggle between communism and anticommunism -- the central moral issue of Koestler's lifetime -- not only no longer exists, it no longer evokes much interest. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Ironically its anticommunism made it attractive to Mussolini's fascist regime during the war -- even though Rand's passionate defense of the individual against the state was as antagonistic to fascism as it was to communism. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Of course the early friendship frayed as anticommunism gripped 1950s Washington. ❋ Tom Nagorski (2010)