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Anti-communism is opposition to communism. Organized anti-communism developed in reaction to the rise of communism, especially after the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. It reached global dimensions during the Cold War, when the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in an intense rivalry. Anti-communism has been an element of movements holding many different political positions, including capitalist, liberal, anarchist, and even socialist and fascist viewpoints.

Conservative and classical liberal anti-communists argue that centrally planned economies have under-performed free market economies in economic growth and they say that communism results in less liberty. They accuse communists of causing several famines, such as the Russian Famine of 1921, the Holodomor and the much more severe famine in China during the Great Leap Forward.

In the 1930s-1950s it was a common theme for scholars to see both communism and fascism as totalitarian political systems, stressing their common ingredients. Both movements that have come to power have been rigidly intolerant of political opposition. Both created a new ruling class, with powers and privileges similar to those enjoyed by the upper classes under non-communist regimes.


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