Unlike in Canada, Europe and Oceania, a major social-democratic party has never materialized in the United States and the socialist movement in the United States was relatively weak in comparison. In the United States, socialism can be stigmatized because is commonly associated with authoritarian socialism, the Soviet Union and other authoritarian communist regimes. Writing for "The Economist", Samuel Jackson argued that "socialism" has been used as a pejorative term, without any clear definition, by conservatives and libertarians to taint liberal and progressive policies, proposals and public figures. The term "socialization" has been mistakenly used to refer to any state or government-operated industry or service (the proper term for such being either "municipalization" or "nationalization"). This has also been incorrectly used to mean any tax-funded programs, whether privately run or government run. "Socialism" has been used to argue against economic interventionism, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Medicare, the New Deal, Social Security and universal single-payer health care, among others.