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In reply to the discussion: Which of these do you consider yourself? [View all]Celerity
(43,657 posts)34. Absolutely not.
Democratic Socialist and progressive left are very similar.
There are no actual federally elected democratic socialists, just a small number who (by far my main issue with them) falsely self-label as such when they are simply just bog standard social democrats.
They do not believe in a core tenet of actual socialism, which is the state expropriation of the means of production. When you ask any of them to define what democratic socialism is to them, they always just give a very similar definition of what is called the Nordic model (I live in Sweden) of social democracy. No major western industrialised nation is a socialist country.
The elected US members of either chamber of Congress who falsely self-label as dem socs do nothing but hurt themselves and the party in reactionary, dumbed down America, where most people instantly conflate socialism with communism. It is the height of hubris to think they can undo centuries of accepted academic and commonly accepted mainstream culture used definitions.
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I empathize. That my thing. Sometimes I empathize for a second with the creepiest
applegrove
Nov 2021
#1
I don't fit very well into categories, as where I am really depends on the issue
Amishman
Nov 2021
#7
sigh, this makes me so sad (I am too tired to even get mad over it, it is just wearying)
Celerity
Nov 2021
#30
I thought it also meant that you are ok with banning long time things now found offensive by some
Polybius
Nov 2021
#24
History of the...Left - Right spectrum. Where did it come from? French Revolution..
Stuart G
Nov 2021
#21
Not many, only a handful self-label as such. AOC and Bernie are the two most well known.
Celerity
Nov 2021
#36
It is hubristic to think you can simply 're-brand' a toxic (toxic in a reactionary nation-state like
Celerity
Nov 2021
#39