Labeling something socialist or communist is an easy way to engender distain for that something. Amnesty International comments on the 700 Judicial Murders that have taken place in the US since 1977.
Judicial killing is on the rise.
In 1209 Pope Innocent III ordered a purge of all heretics in the southern French town of Beziers. The town had a population of around 20,000 people with an estimated 200 heretics. The Catholic believers refused to name the heretics among them. God will know his own. The crusaders followed his orders and either burned or clubbed to death nearly everyone in town.