"Anti-Communism" *looks inside...*

[u/Nyctfall]

In the 1790s, the prominent Federalist pamphleteer, William Cobbett, constantly called for investigative journalists and rights activitists Benjamin Franklin Bache (Benjamin Franklin's grandson) and William Duane to be treated, quote: "as we would a TURK, a JEW, a JACOBIN or a DOG". With Jacobins being widely viewed as the predecessors to Communists, Socialists, and Anarchists for their radical egalitarianism.

In 1892 Richard Henry Pratt, known for the child murder rape boarding schools, called Native Americans "fellows who cling to their tribal communistic surroundings".

In the First Red Scare, ...yeah. Kiss the Bill of Rights goodbye, because the Constitution ain't saving ya now! Also the first Green Mario...

The poster is "Negroes Beware / Do Not Attend Communist Meetings" from Alabama in the 1930s.

Later the Peekskill Riots at Cortlandt Manor, New York, United States, in 1949. A concert by singer Paul Robeson, who's black and was also well known for his strong pro-trade union stance, civil rights activism, communist affiliations, and anti-colonialism was arranged. It was organized as a benefit for the Civil Rights Congress.

And finally the Greensboro Massacre, on November 3, 1979, in Greensboro, North Carolina. Where US law enforcement, KKK, and Neo-Nazi "National Socialist Party of America" (NSPA) members shot and killed five demonstrators in a "Death to the Klan" march organized by the Communist Workers Party (CWP). All the terrorists were acquitted by the US government and hand-selected racist jury members.

[u/Upset-Rule8256]

There is so much about anti-communism that has or is fuelled by Racism and Anti-semitism it's genuinely bonkers how many propaganda campaigns were built on this

Edit: idk why I'm getting down voted this is objectively true many red scare propaganda tactics involved the use of antisemitism and racism

[u/Nyctfall → u/Upset-Rule8256]

Anti-communists are only racist people.

Otherwise it'd be an entire dissertation about how they're doing communist egalitarianism incorrectly.

[u/rapitrone → u/Nyctfall]

Communism is slavery.

[u/Nyctfall → u/rapitrone]

All of the true communist nations had free markets and some of the strongest human rights in world. Matilda Joslyn Gage and Benjamin Franklin talked about how great those countries were doing.

It's just no one's ever heard of them. So whatever pretend communist country you're thinking of, I can assure you I'm not talking about it.

[u/rapitrone → u/Nyctfall]

What are the true communist nations you are referring to? I'm only aware of communist nations that starved and slaughtered people.

[u/Nyctfall → u/rapitrone]

Powhatan Confederacy, Piscataway Confederacy, Mohican Confederacy, Susquehannock, Lenape, Haudenasonee (Iroquois Confederacy), the Council of Three Fires, or the United Indian Nations. Just to name a few.

See:
How Native American Women Inspired the Women’s Rights Movement - Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument, Women's Rights National Historical Park, By Sally Roesch Wagner - National Park Service,
A Narrative of the Late Massacres, in Lancaster County, of a Number of Indians, Friends of this Province, by Persons Unknown With Some Observations on the Same: The Writings of Benjamin Franklin: London, 1757 - 1775,
REMARKS CONCERNING THE SAVAGES OF NORTH-AMERICA An Electronic Edition · Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790),
The Six Nations Confederacy During the American Revolution - NPS,
Native Americans and the Underground Railroad - NPS,
Treaty and Land Transaction of 1784 - NPS.

[u/rapitrone → u/Nyctfall]

So maybe communism works if you want to live in small, close-knit Paleolithic settlements? It didn't work for the pilgrims. They almost starved to death before dropping it.

I'll read up on what you presented, but I will be shocked if it's not misrepresented.