Y'know what, in terms of political terminology it's super irritating that social democracy ≠ democratic socialism.

Key: social democracy is capitalist (think Scandinavia), democratic socialism is not (think DSA).

It's almost as bad as how ambiguous "liberal" is in the US.

Muddy political terminology in the US also means when people say "I'm a socialist" without further qualifiers it's impossible to tell if they mean "we need to overthrow capitalism" or "I think the State should own the railroads".

@starkatt That and that the g**d****ed NSDAP had to go and use National Socialist and confuse the hell out of generations of right-wing loonies.

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