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  • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
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    21 hours ago

    Wait, a .ml user confusing socialists and social democrats? That kind of blunder is reserved for .world users!

    Jokes aside, social democrats and socialists are mutually exclusive. Social democracy is capitalism, socialism is by definition not.

    • balsoft@lemmy.ml
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      11 hours ago

      Nowadays the umbrella is pretty broad, people like Mamdani are often indeed called or identify as socdems, and yet they’re also reformist socialists.

      I just had a brainfart and swapped the words “democratic” and “socialist” around, my bad

    • cloudskater@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      17 hours ago

      Yup! That’s why democratic socialists are a thing! Though, I think that term only exists to emphasize that socialism is not inherently antidemocratic, as red scare bs would have one beleive.