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(03-18-2019, 11:45 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Anti-Communism is an ideology?  This is literally the first time I've ever heard someone make this assertion.  As I stated previously, communism has such an abysmal track record that I'd question the sanity of anyone who wasn't anti-communist.

Studying anti-communism AS AN IDEOLOGY has been a subfield of Cold War history for decades.  Over the last 10 years it has expanded well beyond that.

For example, check out this introduction to the Jan. 2018 issue of the Journal of Contemporary History, entirely dedicated to anti-communism in the interwar years.

Naming the Enemy: Anti-communism in Transnational Perspective
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022009417735165

Here is the abstract:
In this introduction to the special issue on transnational anti-communism, Marla Stone and Giuliana Chamedes present the contours of a comparative approach to the study of anti-communism, raising issues of its origins and impact, and calling for attention to anti-communism as a discrete ideology with a defined set of beliefs and practices. The special issue of six articles, edited by Stone and Chamedes, focuses on anti-communism in the interwar period in a range of locations, including India under British rule, colonial Madagascar, Italy, France, Britain and the United States of America. The essays emphasize comparative issues regarding the emergence and consolidation of anti-communist movements and practices in the 1920s and 1930s, and they argue for the transnational and international character of interwar anti-communism, and for its profound implications for both national and global politics.

Notice that the articles in this journal focus only on a subfield of this subfield. 

Here is another article from the same journal from last May.
The Johnstone Affair and Anti-Communism in Interwar India
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022009416688257?icid=int.sj-full-text.similar-articles.1

For some less recent examples in book form
M.J. Heale's American Anti-Communism: Combating the Enemy Within, 1830-1970  (1990).
https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/american-anti-communism

Anti-Communism and Popular Culture in Mid-Century America by Cyndy Hendershot  (2003)
https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/anti-communism-and-popular-culture-in-mid-century-america/.
(Hendershot is a literary critic, not a historian, but this work does a good job of explaining how anti-communism permeated everyday American during the Cold War, even in such seemingly innocuous cultural forms as cartoons (Rocky and Bullwinkle).

Anti-Communism in Twentieth-Century America: A Critical History (2011) by Larry CePlair.
https://www.amazon.com/Anti-Communism-Twentieth-Century-America-Critical-History/dp/1440800472

Those are just some works in which "anti-communism" appears in the title. There are many other articles, books and conference papers dealing with the subject as well without this reference. As I say, a subfield of history--and not just of U.S. history.