• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    3 hours ago

    social democrat, not a demsoc

    this is my first time hearing this.

    do you know of other sources i can look up to know the difference?

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      Social Democrats are liberals that want expanded social safety nets while retaining bourgeois rule, the “class harmony” people. Democratic socialists are reformist socialists, socialists that wish to establish a socialist economy via electoral means. Allende in Chile is a famous example of one that almost worked. Venezuela right now has elements of revolutionary heritage from the Bolivarian revolution, but is still quite electoralist.