American democratic socialism

What the rest of the world calls social democracy. Much like American football, we’ve created our own definition. After years of political scientists cringing at misuse of the word, people are throwing their hands up, and accepting that in the US, socialism means something completely different than it does literally anywhere else.

Person 1: I thought socialists wanted to “seize the means of production.”
Person 2: Bernie advocates American democratic socialism. He doesn’t want any of that.

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Democratic socialism

A political ideology advocating a transition to a socially owned economy through democratic means. Democratic socialism is not to be confused with social democracy (an ideology that advocates for a mixed economy and a welfare state, while retaining the structure of capitalism).

Notable advocates of Democratic socialism include Clement Attlee, Jeremy Corbyn, Eugene V. Debs, Albert Einstein, and Martin Luther King Jr.

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