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  The Hysteria of the U.S. Establishment: A Red Scare Redux By David Starr Socialism has somewhat increased  in popularity in the United States. The recent elections have put Democratic Socialists at the center of attention in U.S. politics. And this is making the U.S. establishment sweat. With that comes the reactions characterized by hysteria in its propaganda. It’s as though we’ve traveled back to the 1950s, and even after that with Cold War I raging between the United States and the Soviet Union. Now we are in Cold War II and the propaganda sounds pathetically familiar.  The right-wing and corporate neoliberals  have tried to bombard  the U.S. public with appeals to fear, and hysteria. They spout out anti-communist rhetoric and socialist stereotypes. And most of the time they fail to understand the actual meanings of communism and socialism. For one thing communism hasn’t really existed . Being an epoch, it would take more than 74 years for it to be establis...