“Of course, the Current Year Left isn’t really even Marxist anymore in the traditional sense. Marx would have deplored all of the sexual perversion they push these days as bourgeoisie decadence, though he would have lacked any moral basis from which to do so.”
Don’t be so sure about that. One of Marx’s goals was the breakdown of the family, and sexual perversion is a dang good way to accomplish that bit. Besides, Lenin himself legalized homosexuality among other things (ironically, it was Stalin who recriminalized it within the USSR, though he DID still support it outside the USSR, purely so it could ensure a communist takeover far more easily).
As far as Fascism and whether it was reactionary, not really. If anything, Mussolini, the guy who founded Fascism, is pretty much all FOR Socialism, and is as much against it as Gramsci was.
“Are there any examples of libertarianism defeating a communist takeover of a country from within? I mean outside of fictional novels.”
Does Pope John Paul II and/or Ronald Reagan count?
“Does Pope John Paul II and/or Ronald Reagan count?”
No. Reagan’s nationalistic military buildup and JP2’s advocacy on behalf of the Church do not count as libertarian. They did achieve some temporary success in their time against the external threat of the USSR, but now the Left uses private companies to spread their poison, and the Catholic Church has a new kind of leadership. Unfortunately, their efforts only held things at bay for a bit.