But it has been their opponents who have accused them of “creeping socialism,” while advocates have avoided the S-word. Some major policies of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal — Social Security most of all — remain part of the fabric of American life. The fuel administration enforced “heatless Mondays,” the National War Labor Board set the eight-hour day, and the War Finance Corporation built an emergency fleet. You can find elements of Wilson’s wartime socialism in some self-described experiments within Roosevelt’s New Deal. But when war came, he didn’t choose to nationalize the railroads and industries.