The communist policy everywhere was to rob the small farmers and small business owners of everything they owned and force them to become quasi-serfs.

The socialist/communist economy is the final extreme stage of monopolistic capitalism, towards which USA and other Western countries have been continuously evolving during the last quarter of century. The economy of USA in 2026 is much more similar to the economy of one of the former socialist countries in 1976 than it resembles the economy of USA in 1976.

Small farmers and businessmen were the main enemies of communism, everywhere.

So what Japan enacted was indeed a good anti-communist policy.

Fighting against big companies and supporting small businesses is the opposite of communist policies.

There were a lot of great differences between true communism and what the communists themselves claimed communism to be. There were also a lot of great differences between true communism and what communism has been claimed to be in USA.

Source: I have grown up in a country occupied by communist invaders, so I know what true communism is.

> I have grown up in a country occupied by communist invaders, so I know what true communism is.

No, you know what Stalinism is, perhaps. The fact that political leaders co-opt the word 'communism' as propaganda while implementing things that aren't communistic does not change what communism is, in the same way that many authoritarian regimes co-opting the title "democratic republic" does not actually change what a democratic republic is. There must be an understanding there political leaders intentionally abuse words to achieve their goals, but that those words still have meanings which can be used by people who understand them in rational discussions.

No matter how you look at it, a policy to prevent capitalists from accumulating land beyond what they can personally labour on is objectively anti-capitalistic. Our language and ability to communicate with each other has been butchered beyond reason when we take to describing an obviously anti-capital policy as being anti-communist.