re: #362 Obdicut

You’ve lost me.

You think that people stopped calling themselves ‘socialist’ in the US because they didn’t want to be associated with the Communists— who were referred to not as socialists, but as Communists?

Come on. That’s exactly why people in the US stopped calling themselves “socialist” - because of its association with what was going on in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The word “socialism” was used quite a lot. In fact, one of the S’s in USSR stands for “socialist”.