2. I'd argue that for the right, both in America and elsewhere, the enemy was always liberalism & social democracy, with communism as more of a convenient bogey-man. As Hofstadter noted, McCarthyites preferred harassing domestic leftists to actually confronting communist regimes
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3. Irving Kristol in 1993: "I was indeed a 'Cold Warrior' ... but I was not engaged in any kind of crusade against communism. It was the fundamental assumptions of contemporary liberalism that were my enemy." Anti-liberalism, not anti-communism drove him.
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We’re still accusing Russia of being communist when in reality they’re authoritarian right?
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Or that the motivation for anti-communism wasn't that communism was undemocratic, but rather that it was egalitarian?
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Yes. It was the positive side of communism they disliked.
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People think you sound crazy when you say modern conservatism wants to roll back the Enlightenment, but when you talk to one of them educated enough to understand the question, they typically agree that is their goal.
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Heck, racial justice in the world was always labeled Communist. MLK and Mandela both labeled Marxist. When Andrew Sullivan says BLM is Marxist, I know what tradition he comes from.
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Or as Sideshow Bob put it: "Lower taxes, brutalize criminals and rule you like a king."
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