Difference between a Democratic Socialist and a Social Democrat

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15. It is all somewhat ironic

because I know some "true purist" commies who hate DSA much more than Trump and the Republicans, maybe because DSA is socialism without the authoritarianism. The authoritarianism trumps the importance of workers controlling the means of production. DSA is a real big tent, so I would not categorize it too much, it's like the Unitarian Universalist church for the left. The are many Social Democrats in DSA too, who want to reform capitalism to the point that one could call it socialism in the loose sense, like they did in the 1800s. What burns me is the teabilly leftists who appropriate leftist causes like choice, unions and death penalty, but when you tally it all up they're just trying to help repigs win elections. Jack Barnes and his Socialist Workers Party have went down that route the past two years, and it's infuriating.