Anticommunism.
Underlying many of the political and cultural tensions within any society is the fear of ideologies that differ from dominant modes of thinking. The concern that a particular belief system may pose a challenge to common and accepted ways of life often dictates the level and type of state power put toward both international relations and domestic policies. Communism, a system under which property is owned by the state or community and all citizens share in the common wealth, has been interpreted as a threat to cultures organized around fascism, Nazism, and capitalism (to name just a few). A multitude of political and civil organizations within these cultures incorporated anticommunism as a subsidiary part of their activities; other groups made anticommunism their central and single purpose. But rather than defined by a principal organization or a core ideology, anticommunism encompassed numerous varieties that did not share a common agenda aside from their opposition to communism.... ...
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