U.S. President Donald Trump, in yet another absurd attempt to demonize communist ideas, signed an official proclamation declaring the period from November 1st to 7th, 2026, as “Anti-Communism Week.”

The proclamation asserts that communist and socialist ideologies have threatened human freedom for over a century, suppressing individual opportunities, subordinating individuals to the state, and destroying “God-given rights.” It also claims that the United States today faces “new threats” from socialist, communist, and “radical left” ideologies. “Under my leadership, America will never become a victim of these evil ideologies, and the United States will never become a communist country,” Trump proclaims in the document. In conclusion, he calls on Americans to honor the memory of “victims of communism and socialism,” to “firmly stand against any threat to the American way of life,” and to protect “our burning flame of freedom” from what he called “the darkness of communism.”

The document was published by the White House on November 3rd, 2026 – the very day of the U.S. midterm elections. Experts note that with this move, Trump once again updated his traditional rhetoric against left-wing ideologies and social-democratic trends within the country. However, the elections resulted in a crushing defeat for the Republican Party: Democrats gained control of both houses of Congress and achieved significant gains in traditionally Republican states. The Communist Party USA in its publication states (https://x.com/communistsusa/status/2118096338931876221) that the election results represent a devastating blow to the “MAGA” movement and Trump’s policies, while emphasizing the need to continue the struggle for peace, social rights, and the demands of the working class.

This is not the first similar initiative by the Trump administration – Trump had previously declared (https://t.me/kom_mir/11964) a similar week of anti-communist action in November 2025. The campaign, culminating in the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution on November 7th, is accompanied by public events aimed at discrediting communism.

Source of the text body -> https://t.me/kom_mir/15395

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    The previous red scares came in post-war periods when the economy was booming and the government was extremely popular.

    Trump is trying red scare while the economy is being destroyed by data centers and we’re in the middle of his unwinnable + ongoing war and his government is historically unpopular. If he tries red scare now, he’s going to make people into communists.

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      Critical support for comrade Trump in his efforts to build class consciousness among the proletariat

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      this

      Trump’s brand has been completely demolished by the election results, and this is just free advertising that socialists and communists are the antithesis of Trump’s brand.

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    China is living in the future.

    The US doesn’t even have good high speed rail / mass public transit.

    The US infrastructure keeps getting older and worse.

    China keeps improving and consolidating win-wins.

    China is communist.

    Therefore, communism is the future. And Trump’s statement is anti-future, a declaration of staying stuck in the past, in decay, in needless suffering, in hell on earth.

    Even so, the threat to the US is not the future as such. The threat is its foundational and systemic rot, starting with settler-colonialism and racialized slavery. The primary enemy of the US in history has never been communism. The primary enemy has been its shadow, its conscience, the blowback consequences of being a worldwide agent of mass murder.

    As Tim Curry’s character in the movie Clue says, “Communism was just a red herring.” A fitting evergreen statement for a nation so immersed in fictional narratives to prop up its empty colonizer culture.

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      Communism was always the future. If the US had a communist revolution in the 1920s, we’d be 50 years ahead of where China is today. China had the debuff of being under one of the most corrupt and oppressive feudalist systems, and had to learn the hard way that you cannot skip capitalism.

      The US in the 1920s was already at the level of 1990s Chinese capitalism when Dengism was fully implemented and set up the current Chinese socioeconomic strategy.

      The enemy of all peoples are those that despise communism; because only those that despise communism can handle slavery, mass murder, colonialism, etc.

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        The US would be decades ahead of China and the rest of the world if they’d had a communist revolution, agreed, but eventually I think an indigenous society like China would come out on top (not that it matters in a mutually-beneficial and cooperative world), whether it took a century or several, inevitably. The skeletons in the closet of the US would still hinder it at every turn… the unnatural population dispersion of a non-indigenously grown population and the results of settler-colonialism, racism, internal divide-and-conquer… the specific kind of settler-chauvinism in regards to the rest of the world (not comparable IMO to Han or even Russian chauvinism…)

        For instance, among many things- I’ve always suspected one of the reasons for the fall of the Soviet Union, is that its primarily white and European population naturally felt they could “join” the west, or even just have a peaceful detente/co-existence with the west being seen as equals, human beings… (obviously even then the majority still wanted to retain the union, etc…) If the Soviet Union had been populated by African or Asian peoples instead I don’t think it would have fallen quite the way it did if at all. And this isn’t me saying “white people are inherently worse” (not at all), but the circumstances were different (or perceived that way in this case, anyways) and the population was more vulnerable as a result…

        The issue with a society like the US is that it is built on basically all the evils/reactionary forces in the world, IMO… not to be defeatist as no matter what it would be a necessary and worthwhile venture, but I feel it would need to be constantly under a cultural revolution far more intense than that of China’s, to maintain the integrity of the revolution whatsoever. Especially with the state of US society in the 1920s (but even now) or the history of the US labor movement (a lot of good, a lot of bad as well undeniably) all the current chuds, would be converted into ““socialists”” the likes of which run the kibbutzes in Israel…

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    Thought of a couple joke responses I wanted to add too:

    “Trump declares anti-communism weak.” (works better if spoken)

    “He’s declaring that the people of the US only get to be anti-communist for one week out of the year. Times are changing! Thanks, Trump.”

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    Red Derangement Syndrome ovah here (not to be confused with Republican Red, but the type of sentiment that created the Red Scare)

    To distract from the US fail regime