American Communist History call for papers

The Long-Life of Anticommunism

Journal: American Communist History

In his 1968 text The Anticommunist Impulse , Michael Parenti wrote that “Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti-communism already has.” He argued that anti-communism commanded the budget, military, and foreign and domestic policies of the United States, with consequences for the entire globe. Parenti did not ascribe anticommunism to either the political righ…