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[-] DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago

Democratic socialism is not unheard of...

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Democratic socialism without the support of capitalism is truly and completely unheard of.

Capitalism is a tool, use it and beat it back into submission when it fails.

[-] DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 8 points 2 weeks ago

But don't worship it. Make it work for the nation, don't make the nation exist for the sake of the economy. This is what we do in America, and it's fucking wrong.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's not unheard of, but it's incredibly ill-defined and means a million different things to a million different people. Socialists are, as a rule, democratic, so "Democratic Socialism" is similar to stating "Anti-Capitalist Socialism."

As a consequence, Democratic Socialism seems to mean anything from the Social Democracies in the Nordic Countries to Socialism but with a democracy structured like the US or Western Europe, as opposed to Soviets or Worker Councils or Trade Unions.

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