In various times, places and contexts such supporters were known as Marxists, Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, Social Democrats and Communists and other names. This does not include the derogatory names.
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Stalin supported the philosophy of communism, while Mussolini supported the philosophy of fascism.
'Containing' Communism was a stupid thing the US thought it had to do. The US didn't like Communism, probably because they didn't undesrtand it at all or were afraid it was better than their economic stance, so they said that they had to contain communism by arresting people who supported communism. yeah, freedom of speech and thought...
They were called loyalists.
Unfortunately very few people in that period supported Communism (a classless stateless society based on production for use and democratic control).
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