Yes, it’s the red scare, but most translations of Karl Marx do use the word “socialism” for the state he described as a precursor to capitalism. And the name of the Russian communist federation was generally translated as “Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Scare
It’s pretty much all US propaganda that makes people hate socialism
Yes, it’s the red scare, but most translations of Karl Marx do use the word “socialism” for the state he described as a precursor to capitalism. And the name of the Russian communist federation was generally translated as “Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.”