What were the difference among social democrats and socialists revolutionary ?
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A democratic socialist is a socialist who wants to achieve power through democratic means. They support public ownership of property, but they don’t want to achieve control through Leninist means. When they look at communism, they don’t see a failed, unworkable ideology; they see a good idea that was subverted by dictatorship.
A social democrat is NOT a socialist. A social democrat is a capitalist, albeit one who believes that unfettered capitalism leads to bad societal outcomes: pollution, extreme wealth inequality, the exploitation of workers by employers, etc. They propose to regulate capitalism and redistribute wealth through taxation and spending on a generous social safety net.
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Explanation:
There is confusion in the US about these terms because:
They sound very similar.
The left-of-center party, the Democratic Party, has traditionally been to the right of what people would recognize as social democracy, so it wasn’t a term that was relevant to US politics.
The most prominent social democrat in the US, Bernie Sanders, refers to himself as a democratic socialist. Whatever ideas he might have once espoused as a young man, nothing Bernie has proposed since rising to prominence has been even close to socialism, democratic or otherwise. He isn’t proposing the public ownership of large sectors of the economy, with the exception of electricity generation.[1] On healthcare, however, he doesn’t propose to nationalize hospital systems and make physicians and nurses employees of the government. He is merely proposing to change the way private healthcare gets paid for