Butler, my favorite example is this column by Lewis Diuguid. He says that because Martin Luther King, E.B. DuBois, Paul Robeson, and A. Philip Randolph were called socialists, calling Obama one is a racial slur. Yet King described himself as a Marxist, DuBois was a decades-long member of the central committee of the Communist Party of the USA, Robeson was a prominent member of the CPUSA, and Randolph was a leading member of the Democratic Socialists. That’s not the sum of these men, but they were all red-blooded socialists.