ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that one of the ways in which race has been simultaneously repressed and its effects sustained in the international order is through the deployment of anticommunism in the Cold War. Anticommunism has a particular role to play in racial states. Three such states in the twentieth century manifested a particular concern with anticommunism: the United States, Australia and South Africa. In these states, anticommunism was peculiarly intense and was imbricated with the defence of racial systems in remarkably similar ways. Finally, anticommunism was entangled with an imperialist civilising mission particularly in the Cold War era. The Cold War represented a particular transitional moment in the geopolitical management of the uneven and combined development of capitalism, in which an emerging norm of national self-determination embodied in the legal superstructure of the United Nations conflicted with the established norm of white-world supremacy. The Cold War 'historic bloc' was finished, consumed in the overthrow of white-world supremacy.
