Social democracy and democratic socialism are not the same.

Social democracy, yes, is what you describe: try to regulate capitalism and make it livable via labor protections, public services and a welfare state. The end horizon is something like the Scandinavian dream.

Democratic socialism is different: the end horizon is indeed full blown socialism, with social ownership of the means of production and ultimately with abolition of capitalist relations altogether. However, for democratic socialists, the path to that horizon does not pass via revolution but via the democratic process.

In practice social-democrats and democratic-socialists end up finding it easy to agree on a political program for the here and now and so very often they coexist. Both want to reform capitalism.They just don’t agree as to how deep that reform can go. For the democratic socialists, the things social-democrats want are in fact the means towards the end result. For the social-democrats that end result is not necessary considered possible or even desirable. But the two have never won that much that their differences would actually come to a head.

Take a load of these idiots that haven’t figured out that social democracy and democratic socialism can and usually do coexist in centre left parties.

Founding Daddy Issues.

“Give 'em Hell 54th!”

Ah ça ira ça ira ça ira, les aristocrates à la lanterne!

Beating the wife and the kids at home when he got his ass kicked at the pub.

Can someone explain to me in what sense this money is any real kind of loss for the US? They literally own the dollar printing machines. Sure it’s going to be some fraction of inflation but it’s not as if the US bank account is going to miss this money?

If money is speech why can’t you pay rent with poem?

And she’s absolutely correct.

Canadian conservatives talking about “Soviet style bread lines” in response to Avi Lewis proposing public grocery stores, while there are literal bread lines at food banks.

This is a good time to remind people of this: https://youtu.be/0YFdwfNh5vs

You know what can’t be scalped? Open source: https://inputlabs.io/

Too many Lex Luthors walking around these days.

Obligatory mention of: “R Kelly is not a pedophile, technically speaking”

Bring back the concept of «Heresy». Because this is it.

AOC shouldn’t run for president. She should be in the senate in Schumer’s seat.

The Mad King Aerys Trumpgarien.

I see @[email protected] in the list of mods in this community and I know from [email protected] that he feels strongly about substacks. But as far as I can see there is nothing on the sidebar here that follows similar rules as, say [email protected]’s Rule 1. He mods both communities and Rule 1 here says “only links to articles”, whereas Rule 1 there says “news articles only”, so I assume that qualification identifies a meaningful difference. On the contrary, I see that “original content” is encouraged. At any rate, if this violates the rules of this community, sorry, and please update your rules because it’s not otherwise clear.

You clearly didn’t. I’m not American so I’m not part of your “we”. Your turn: is Gaza just a gotcha for you?

Have you been doing any Palestine solidarity work or is gaza just a gotcha for you?