> mostly because we've failed at teaching our children history and basic types of government Or you know the whole part of the history book where 20th century

> mostly because we've failed at teaching our children history and basic types of government Or you know the whole part of the history book where 20th century communists called themselves socialists too, least of which the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)... Lenin was in the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. China calls itself "Socialism with Chinese characteristics." North Korea is an "independent socialist state." Ho Chi Minh's roots were in the Socialist Party of France before being a founder of the French Communist Party.