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brooklynite

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8. Either words have meaning or we're just making up definitions...

Reply to Gidney N Cloyd (Original post)

Sun Dec 30, 2018, 01:46 AM

Dec 2018

In the English language, the first word modifies the second word. DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM means a political reform (Democratic) of an economic term (Socialism: an economic structure where the State controls the means of production).

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Difference between a Democratic Socialist and a Social Democrat [View all] Gidney N Cloyd Dec 2018 OP

Try selling that to the RWNJ's dhol82 Dec 2018 #1

My main concern is the confusion plays right into their blood-stained hands. Gidney N Cloyd Dec 2018 #2

They don't need confusion dhol82 Dec 2018 #3

and yet we've always been a mutt Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2018 #4

Indeed, however - dhol82 Dec 2018 #5

Yeah, even if you list the social programs we've long had, from "roads" to "Medicare," people freak. Gidney N Cloyd Dec 2018 #14

I'm with ya. Bucky Dec 2018 #10

If they had asked me, moondust Dec 2018 #6

I think I'm with you on that. Gidney N Cloyd Dec 2018 #13

social democrat all the way AlexSFCA Dec 2018 #7

Either words have meaning or we're just making up definitions... brooklynite Dec 2018 #8

The Quora quote I posted seems to be in agreement with the definitions I found elsewhere. Gidney N Cloyd Dec 2018 #12

There is really not a big difference. roamer65 Dec 2018 #9

This message was self-deleted by its author elocs Dec 2018 #11

It is all somewhat ironic agincourt Dec 2018 #15