[WikiEN-l] Socialism

[David Gerard]

2008/7/13 Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com>:

> There isn't anything particularly contentious about this, and I can
> see why it got chosen - it's the generally accepted linkage, socialism
> and related leftish philosophies of all stripes, light and heavy, are
> almost invariably seen as "red".


Yes. The American convention, with Republican as red and Democrat as
blue, is odd in the international context.


- d.