I think the inconvenient truth is that from way back--even when some were trying to demand safe working conditions, shorter hours, overtime pay, etc.--these people were called socialists. Anything, it seems, that forces the wealthy class to have to do something for the common man (since they wealthy class seldom do it without being forced to), the wealthy call it socialism, anarchy, or communism. As for Keynesian economic policies, at the time, that was thought to have been the way out. Today, we have a modified view of deficit spending, etc., but back then it seemed that that was what was needed.