> I think you're assuming that people have a far more concrete idea of
> socialism than they actually do. For far more than 1% of Americans, at
> least, socialism is any public expenditures they don't like.
>
> I once was arguing with a guy who defined socialism (which he considered a
> very bad thing) as "government redistribution of wealth."
>
Yes, but Marxists will be there to inform them that we have no way of knowing what socialism is - except that we definitely know it's not "government redistribution of wealth."
SA