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Anyone who needs a placard to identify how they feel about social issues, or who blankets their opinions tailored towards one specific ideaology in this day and age is a fool. Just as you can't go into a voting booth with your union mailer and poke a vote for every democrat, you sure as hell shouldn't be walking around calling yourself a socialist and thinking that means the same thing to any two people. There are good and bad aspects to every political ideaology...and I'd think it's a given that the important thing is how it's practiced. I thnk the negative connotations behind being a "socialist" or "communist" come from how these words are practiced, not just how they're feared.