"Really, a "commie rag"? Didn't that stop flying sometime in the late 1950s?"

LOL

The G&M reads nothing like "Socialist Worker". The SW is most definitely an unabashed, unashamed "commie rag", and it leaves you knowing it.

It seems to me that the accusation of "socialist!" or "commie!" or "lefty!" or "pinko!" is nothing but a meaningless attempt to annoy those whom it's tossed at. It's just silly.

The G&M is pretty firmly right-of-center when it comes to money and politics. It's almost exactly centrist when it comes to social policy. It salts its pages with a sprinkle of left-of-center on rare occasions.

When the accusation that it's "commie" starts to fly, you see just how far to extreme end of frightwing  the accuser stands.