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?

They were communists by ideology, but socialists by the economic regime (or so they thought; we could describe them better as state capitalists, but that’s not the usual label for them).