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Democratic Socialism (DemSoc), not to be confused with Social Democracy, is a left-wing ideology inhabiting around the top center of the libertarian left quadrant. It is one of the more moderate socialists.

Democratic Socialism seeks to combine Democracy and File:Soc.png Socialism, viewing dominant socialist currents as undemocratic (and usually as not truly socialist, due to this). This is done typically by means of advocating for transition to socialism by Reformist and electoralist means, using Liberal democracy to acheive a socialist society, rather than using revolutionary, or otherwise violent or non-reformist means. Despite the former, sometimes dubbed "Evolutionary Democratic Socialism", or just "Evolutionary Socialism", being by far the most popular Democratic Socialist current, there also exists a form of Democratic Socialism that does support (violent) revolution. Revolutionary Democratic Socialism does not view electoralism as a legitimate or practical way of achieving socialism, but rather supports a revolution to establish a socialist society with democratic governance. In this way, this form of Democratic Socialism is democratic not in its means, like Evolutionary Socialism, but only in its ends.

History

United Kingdom

W.I.P

United States

In the United States, Democratic Socialism exists in the form of Sandersism. Sandersism first came around as an ideology in 1972 when Bernie Sanders ran for senator of Vermont under the Liberty Union Party, but lost the vote. He ran for Governor of Vermont as well in the same year but also lost. Bernie Sanders did later become senator of Vermont in 2006 and still has been the senator of Vermont to this day, but is now under the Vermont Progressive Party (but somewhat independent) rather than the Liberty Union. Though he is still part of the Senate Democrat Caucaus and runs for president as a Democrat. His runs for president in 2016 and 2020 put the term 'democratic socialism' into mainstream American political discourse, although his economic policies which more resemble that of Social Democracy, with him heavily citing the Nordic Model as an inspiration, makes his classification as a democratic socialist debatable. Nonetheless, democratic socialist organizations like the DSA saw a huge boost in membership after his runs for president, with many of these members like AOC later being elected to congress.

Russia

At the beginning of the 20th century in Russia, two parties stood on the positions of democratic socialism: the Mensheviks and the Socialist-Revolutionaries.

During the years of Soviet power, democratic socialism was popular among the opposition.In his “Draft Constitution of the Union of Soviet Republics of Europe and Asia”, Academician A. D. Sakharov reflected the principles of a state with broad democratic rights and a mixed planned market economy, in which entrepreneurs are financially responsible for the social consequences of their activities.

In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev came to power and tried to reform the Soviet Union.

Today, many provisions of democratic socialism have broad support in Russia. According to the All-Russian Poll of VCIOM in February 2006, 46.7% of the population spoke in favor of recreating a strong and socially oriented, but at the same time democratic, state. However, this ideology is almost not associated with the existing socialist or social democratic parties, which were supported by only 4% of the respondents.

Chile

As a result of the elections in Chile in 1970, the Popular Unity party, led by Salvador Allende, came to power. Economic reforms were carried out, as a result of which the US share in the Chilean economy decreased, and workers' self-government was also introduced.

However, in 1973 this government was overthrown by a military junta led by Augusto Pinochet.

India

Jawaharlal Nehru is an Indian statesman, political and public figure. Under the mentorship of Mahatma Gandhi, he became Chairman of the Indian National Congress, and later, after the country gained independence on August 15, 1947, the first Prime Minister of India. He remained in this post until May 27, 1964, when he died of a heart attack. Nehru took a neutral position in foreign policy, implying India's independence from both the Western and Eastern blocs. In view of this, he, along with Gamal Abdel Nasser and Josip Broz Tito, took part in the tripartite consultations that preceded the creation of the Non-Aligned Movement, which unites countries with economies that differ significantly from capitalism and soviet central planning. However, he later admitted that the neutral position towards communism, which pursued an aggressive expansionist policy, was ineffective. China's attack on India forced it to move closer to the NATO countries and abandon its neutrality.

In domestic politics, Nehru was an active supporter of Georgism, while recognizing private initiative as the main functional engine of harmonious economic and social development.

China

Chen Duxiu Thought is an ideology based on the ideas of Chen Duxiu, the first general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. He believed that China should not follow the ideas of Stalin, but should follow the path of trotskyism and democratic socialism.

However, in 1927 he left the post of General Secretary of the CCP, and founded his own faction in 1929. In 1932 he was arrested by the Nationalist government, and in 1942 he died.

Later, in 2007, this ideology became popular again in China. All this came from Democratic Socialism and the Future of Workers written by Xie Tao (谢韬,1921-2010). At that time, this article caused a strong debate in China. Supporters believe that the high welfare social system mentioned in the article is progressiveness and referential. Opponents believe that the author did not have a deep understanding of the thoughts of Marx, Engels and Bernstein. In January 2008, the former President Hu Jintao ended the debate.

France

Mélenchonism is an ideology based on the views of the French politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon. He was a member of the French National Assembly and a member of the European Parliament. In the 2022 elections, he came close to making it to the second round of the presidential election, with 22%.

Sweden

Jonas Sjöstedt is a Swedish politician who was Chairman of the Left Party from 2012 to 2020, and is a former metal worker. He has also been a member of the Swedish Parliament since 2010.

Sjöstedt became politically active in the trade union movement at Volvo's Umeå plant in the early 1990s. Despite the fact that he was elected MEP in 1995 from the Left Party in the united left - the Northern Green Left. He held this position until his retirement in September 2006. In 2010 he was elected a member of the Swedish Parliament for Västerbotten. In the election, he came first on the ticket of the Left Party (which usually receives one representative in that district) and was elected by a personal majority in one part of all the elected electoral votes (for a sufficient sample of more than 8%).

In January 2020, Sjöstedt announced his intention to step down as leader of the Left Party at the May convention, stating that he wanted to spend more time with his family, who currently lives in Vietnam. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the convention was postponed and Sjöstedt was the group's headquarters until the convention took place on October 31, 2020, when Nushi Dadgostar was elected as his successor.

Based in New York from 2006 to 2010, Sjöstedt is also a member of the US Socialist Party. He writes for Swedish publications, articles for radio and newspapers, as well as history and fiction. Married to a Swedish diplomat. Ann Mawe, who was a member of the Swedish delegation to the UN.

Beliefs and Views

Democratic socialism is a left-wing democratic and usually reformist ideology. Its fundamental principles are the same as those of Social Democracy - freedom, justice and solidarity.

Economics

The economy under democratic socialism ranges from mixed economy and market-socialist economy to participatory economy.

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Personality

Democratic socialism usually behaves like a softer version of File:Soc.png Socialism or like a harder version of Social Democracy. She also doesn't like being confused with socdem.

How to Draw

Flag of Democratic Socialism (DSA design)

USA style

Drawing Democratic Socialism in this design takes a few steps:

Draw a ball
Fill it with red
Draw a white hand outline coming from the left
Draw a black hand outline coming from the right, that holds onto the white hand
Draw a white rose with 2 white leaves
Draw the eyes and you're done!

	HEX	RGB
Red	#FF1D10	255, 29, 16
White	#FFFFFF	255, 255, 255
Black	#211C1C	33, 28, 28

Star style

Flag of Democratic Socialism (Star design)

Drawing Democratic Socialism in the star style also takes a few steps:

Draw a ball
Fill it with red
Draw a white circle in the center
Draw a smaller blue circle inside the white circle.
Draw a white star over the circle, being careful to leave the points of the star outside of the white circle but the indentations well inside the blue one so this one is still visible
Draw a smaller red star inside the white star
Add the eyes and you're done!

	HEX	RGB
Red	#D60F18	214, 15, 24
White	#FFFFFF	255, 255, 255
Blue	#1E3F7A	30, 63, 122

Relations

Friends

File:Soc.png Socialism - My father had his problematic ways but his intentions were good.
Democracy - Without democracy, a society is nothing.
Social Georgism and Georgism - A few of the better capitalists, I like their policies on land.
Libertarian Socialism - Sometimes she's a little extreme in her rhetoric, but both of us value freedom and socialism.
Market Socialism - Based!
Libertarian Market Socialism - Also based!
Participism - An alternative to market socialism for a post-capitalist society.
Eco-Socialism - We gotta DEFEND THE EARTH!
Liberal Socialism - We are very similar!
Reformism - The best way to achieve socialism.
Social Democracy - Some say we're different but the truth is that we overlap quite often. We both love Eugene V. Debbs and Olof Palme.
Left-Wing Populism - For the people!
Reformist Marxism - One of the best forms of Marxism.
Socialism with a Human Face - Really wish your attempts at democratization weren't squabbled by him.
Anti-Authoritarianism - Down with tankies, fascists and monarchists!

Frenemies

Conservative Socialism - I like your economic takes, but not your social takes
Titoism - Authoritarian Tankie, but still better than the others. Pulling back Stalin was mega based.
Tridemism - Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles of the People are based but you went down the drain quickly with Chiang Kai-shek's oppressive right-wing dictatorship and now I don't know what you are anymore.
Left-Wing Nationalism - You've got great economic takes but I'm not so sure with the nationalism, Allende and Evo were based however.
World Federalism - We actually have quite a bit of history together. Some of my most famous proponents also supported you, but I hate how you can often be imperialistic.
Khrushchevism - You are an authoritarian communist who crushed peaceful protests in Eastern Europe, but at least you did manage to De-Stalinize the USSR and enact cultural thaw. Shame that he undid everything you’ve done.
Social Libertarianism - I like your decentralization but when are you going to seize the means of production?
Marxism - You’re way too extreme. Also why do you keep saying I am a Marxist Communist?! And why do you hate Mom?
Chavismo - A little too authoritarian but I still support him against American imperialism. America should lift the sanctions on Venezuela even though Maduro is kinda cringe and much worse than his predecessor Chavez.
Nordic Model - Not exactly what I want, but not bad at all.
Trotskyism - You're the part of us in the past, Then you betrayed us by join him, But Chen Duxiu is based.
Ba'athism - As much as I despise both Saddam and Assad (the latter isn't even a socialist), the Iraq War and foreign intervention in the Syrian civil war made things much worse and led to the rise of ISIS.
Ho Chi Minh Thought - Same as above. The US had no place in the Vietnam War but Vietnam is a repressive and now authoritarian capitalist one-party dictatorship like China.
Nation Alliance - We sometimes work together to oppose him and I might support your presidential candidate against Erdogan's Islamic fascist dictatorship, but why do you also think that I am a PKK supporter?

Enemies

National Bolshevism - You're like ConSoc but worse
Neoconservatism - Stop spending our money on imperialist wars!
Corporatocracy - Corporations are bad enough, and now you want them to rule!
Anarcho-Capitalism - Aren't you that scum again?
Zionism - Free Palestine!
Pinochetism - I'll never forgive you for what you did to Allende!
Marxism–Leninism - Stop giving Socialism a terrible name!
Stalinism - Claimed to be a Socialist, but he was just an oppressive cunt
Dengism - Almost worse than the two above. Tankies defend you for some reason I can't comprehend.
Monarchism - Why do you still exist?
Monarcho-Capitalism - Bruh
Imperialism - One of the biggest evils in human history.
Nazism & Fascism - BASH THE FASH!
Korwinism - Yes, I support Socialism AND Democracy. Got a problem with that?
Hoppeanism - WHY?
Third Way - Fucking Blairites, I'll never forgive you for sabotaging Corbyn and ousting him from his own party!
Democratism - DAMN CORPOCRATS!
Neo-Ottomanism - QUIT TRYING TO BAN ME IN TURKEY! I AM NOT A PKK SYMPATHISER! STOP MAKING UP BULLSHIT! ~~PKK is still better than you~~
Objectivism - What the hell is this pseudo-intellectual garbage?
Thatcherism - You are just like 3way, but from a different party! Ding dong, the witch is dead.
Alt-Right Libertarianism - Bruh, you are literally a Fascist that smokes weed.