Definition of "anticommunism"

In the main, anticommunism in postwar America meant opposition to the kind of dictatorial state socialism that existed in Russia and that many Americans saw as a negation of everything America stood for. In the 1946 campaign, for example, when I talked about the "communist-dominated PAC," my remarks were generally understood in this context of dictatorial socialism versus free enterprise.

1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon‎, Grosset & Dunlap, page 47