For those who haven't had the fortune of reading this insightful comment posted deep into this thread, here it is again:

Associating socialism with communism is actually COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA. Before the commies, nobody ever thought of associating a philosophy of governance founded by Libertarians and Anarchists with communism. But they did that, and the psyop endured for a century or so, and now everybody thinks socialism is the same as communism.

Why do you think Hitler's National Socialists risked EVERYTHING to go fight Communism in the East, while having no peace treaty with the West? Him and his socialists knew the very great danger of THE WORST IDEA EVER: communism.

Repeating communist propaganda psyop material isn't helping anybody but the commies. Read 1984 and realize that destroying language is destroying thought, and with no word for the ideas that "socialism" used to represent before getting co-opted by the commies, these ideas can't be communicated effectively anymore. It's akin to a lobotomy that would only touch socioeconomic thought, performed on whole populations.

But drones drone on: Socialism is a terrible idea because communism. Sigh.