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by dreamfactor 3233 days ago
> When has this happened?

Happened to me a few months back.

> Actually, it was a term first popularized by the socialists, to attack the communists.

I'm talking about it becoming popularised in contemporary politics. We can all google that it was rebirthed in 87. The reason I know this though is that I remember seeing it coming into common currency after it was repeatedly being used as a hot button term by the GH Bush election campaign team in 88. This was talked about in the broadsheets at the time.