Democratic Socialism

Democratic Socialism
Basic Information
Aliases	DemSoc DS Menshevik-Internationalists
Character Information
Likes	Socialism and democracy
Dislikes	Being conflated with Social Democracy
Song	"Banks of Marble" by Pete Seeger

Democratic Socialism, commonly shortened to DemSoc, and not to be confused with Social Democracy, is a left-wing ideology inhabiting the bottom center of the authoritarian left quadrant/top center of the libertarian left quadrant.

He believes the best way to achieve a File:Soc.png Socialist society is through Democracy. He can support either revolutionary or reformist politics as means to establish socialism. He also advocates for public ownership of large businesses and either a limited market composed of worker cooperatives or decentralized planning.

How to Draw

DSA style

Drawing Democratic Socialism in this design takes a few steps:

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

Star style

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

1. Draw a ball
2. Fill it with red
3. Draw a white circle in the center
4. Draw a smaller blue circle inside the white circle.
5. 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
6. Draw a smaller red star inside the white star
7. Add the eyes and you're done!

Relations

Friends

• Social Democracy - Twin sibling who I get along very well.
• File:Soc.png Socialism - My father had his problematic ways but his intentions were good
• Georgism - One of the better capitalists, I like his 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
• Eco-Socialism - We gotta DEFEND THE EARTH

Frenemies

• Conservative Socialism - I like your economic takes but stop calling everything you don't like "degeneracy" please
• Left-Wing Nationalism - You got great economic takes but nationalism... really?
• Social Libertarianism - I like your decentralization but when are you going to seize the means of production?
• Gaddafism - I know you are my child, but you were too authoritarian
• Democratism - you will come around eventually

Enemies

• Neoliberalism - STOP PRIVATIZING EVERYTHING YOU AUSTERITY LOVING FUCK!
• National Bolshevism - You're like ConSoc but worse
• Conservatism - STOP USING WELFARE MONEY ON OIL COMPANIES!
• Neoconservatism - #NoMorePointlessWars
• Corporatocracy - CORPORATIONS WERE BAD ENOUGH AND THEN THERE IS YOU, WANTING CORPORATIONS TO RULE THE COUNTRY
• Anarcho-Capitalism Healthcare is a right, not a privilege!

Further Information

Wikipedia

• Democratic socialism

Online Communities

• r/DemocraticSocialism