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Does our government view socialists as terrorists?

The right says no, but government documents suggest otherwise.

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Carl Beijer
Jun 25, 2021
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Proud Boy marching in DC the morning of the January 6 Capitol riots. [Photo credit: Elvert Barnes, CC BY-SA 2.0]

Government documents circulating in the discourse over the past two weeks have provoked some arguments over whether socialists, as a matter of policy, are being treated as terrorists. The right insists that we technically are not. But if we l…

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