I wouldn't consider HHH a Socialist. IMHO, he was the last of the old-time populist liberals --- the kind of guy that LIEberman pretends to be.
HHH was a tough-ass Cold Warrior and as patriotic as they come. I disagreed with his economic beliefs, (which BTW were nearly identical to Nixon's) but he was not a radical leftist like Wellstone or a grubby divide & conquer race and class bating socialist like McCarthy or Mondale.
"The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which has historically has proved to be always possible." Senator Hubert Humphery (D- Minnesota)