Definition of "non-communist"

In Huangkang, Hupeh, the one non-Communist association, far from being easily absorbed, declared itself to be the holy peasant association and had to be suppressed violently.

1977, Roy, Jr. Hofheinz, The Broken Wave: The Chinese Communist Peasant Movement, 1922-1928‎, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press, page 47‎