In American use, "socialism" often means the same as "fascism": people and ideas on the other side you don't like. In European use, it often refers to actual s

In American use, "socialism" often means the same as "fascism": people and ideas on the other side you don't like. In European use, it often refers to actual socialism, though this varies by country. When it means actual socialism, the left rarely talks about it at all. Because it's something they (or their parents/grandparents) explicitly rejected. As someone working in an American university known for activism, it seems to me that actual socialism is more popular in the US than in Europe. When something happens on campus, socialists are often involved. But almost none of the radical left activists I knew as a student in Finland were socialists.