On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 11:58:58 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 2:41:43 PM UTC-5, Master Bruce wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 12:30:14 -0700, Graham > wrote:
>>
>> >On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 10:48:27 -0800 (PST), GM wrote:
>> >
>> >> Good point - we are not "the rest of the world", we are the US...otherwise the conversation pointlessly "wanders"...
>> >
>> >As it does when USians inevitably use the terms "socialist", "Marxist" or
>> >"Communist" without having a clue what those terms really mean.
>> Cindy knows, but generally speaking that's true.
>
>I think we can safely say that if USians use those terms, they generally
>don't know what those words mean .
>
>Those of us who know what those terms mean don't throw them around.
>
>I've probably met a few Marxists or Communists living in and around a university
>town for the past 40-odd years, but the presence of Marxists or Communists
>in American politics is nil.
>
Same in Australia. Netherlands had them in the 70s. Stalinists,
Maoists, Leninists, the works. But they died out.