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Originally Posted by Corndogger
For 99% of people I'm sure that the first thing that comes to mind when they see that word is hardcore, old-style communism.
What is being taught in schools these days that people can be stupid enough to buy into this nonsense?
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I don't think people today are as scared of socialist terminology as they were during the Red Scare - it doesn't seem as striking, or as ominous.
The People's Party won several elections in Newfoundland and its platform included "leveling the classes" and lots of other socialist terminology. I imagine there was some similar equivalent in Canada or the provinces during the same time period (1908-1919).
Manifesto doesn't bother me at all. It doesn't seem any more ridiculous than "red book", "blue book", etc.