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|aliases = DemSoc<br>[[File:Demsucc.png]] DemSucc (Pejoratively) <br> [[File:Succdem.png]] Succdem with a red mask (Erroneously by [[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism]]) <br>[[File:ClementAttlee.png]] Attlee Socialism (In the [[File:Cball-UK.png]] United Kingdom) <br>[[File:Nehru.png]] Nehru Socialism (In [[File:Cball-India.png]] India)<br> [[File:Sanders.png]] [[Social Democracy|Sandersism]] (Debatably, in the [[File:Cball-US.png]] United States)<br> [[File:JapCom.png]] [[Reformist Marxism|Japanese Communism]] (In [[File:Cball-Japan.png]] Japan)<br>[[File:ModSoc.png]] Moderate Socialism<br>[[File:WokeDemsucc.png]] Woke Leftism (Pejoratively, in modern day West) <br> [[File:N-REDACTED.png]] Jewish '''[REDACTED]''' ([[File:Lassalle.png]] [[Social Democracy|Lassalle]], by [[Marxism|Karl Marx]])<br> [[File:Left_Reformism.png]] Ballot Box Socialism <br>[[File:EvolutionarySoc.png]] [[Reformist Marxism|Evolutionary Socialism]] (most) <br> [[File:Revdemsoc.png]] Revolutionary Democratic Socialism (some)<br> [[File:CentMarxDemSoc.png]] Centrist Democratic Socialism (some)<br> [[File:WPD.png]] The REAL proletarian democracy<br>[[File:RevSocDem.png]] Radical Social Democracy
|aliases = DemSoc<br>[[File:Demsucc.png]] DemSucc (Pejoratively) <br> [[File:Succdem.png]] Succdem with a red mask (Erroneously by [[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism]]) <br>[[File:ClementAttlee.png]] Attlee Socialism (In the [[File:Cball-UK.png]] United Kingdom) <br>[[File:Nehru.png]] Nehru Socialism (In [[File:Cball-India.png]] India)<br> [[File:Sanders.png]] [[Social Democracy|Sandersism]] (Debatably, in the [[File:Cball-US.png]] United States)<br> [[File:JapCom.png]] [[Reformist Marxism|Japanese Communism]] (In [[File:Cball-Japan.png]] Japan)<br>[[File:ModSoc.png]] Moderate Socialism<br>[[File:WokeDemsucc.png]] Woke Leftism (Pejoratively, in modern day West) <br> [[File:N-REDACTED.png]] Jewish '''[REDACTED]''' ([[File:Lassalle.png]] [[Social Democracy|Lassalle]], by [[Marxism|Karl Marx]])<br> [[File:Left_Reformism.png]] Ballot Box Socialism <br>[[File:EvolutionarySoc.png]] [[Reformist Marxism|Evolutionary Socialism]] (most) <br> [[File:Revdemsoc.png]] Revolutionary Democratic Socialism (some)<br> [[File:CentMarxDemSoc.png]] Centrist Democratic Socialism (some)<br> [[File:WPD.png]] The REAL proletarian democracy<br>[[File:RevSocDem.png]] Radical Social Democracy<br>[[File:HardLeft.png]] Hard Left ([[File:Cball-UK.png]] United Kingdom)
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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

The UK Labour Party was first formed on the 27th of February 1900 by the Labour Representation Committee (a pressure group that focused on workers' rights) and was initially File:Soc.png socialist and the abolition of private property was included in the party's platform but by the 1940s, in accordance with many other File:Soc.png socialist political parties in Europe, the abolishment of private property was dropped from their party platform and they swiftly won elections after this. Clement Atlee was elected prime minister in 1945, just three years later his party created the NHS and oversaw mass nationalizations and the formation of a comprehensive welfare state.

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.

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, equality and solidarity.

Economics

Economies of democratic socialism typically are formed of mass nationalizations of industries, while socdems simply want the commanding heights or essential public services to be controlled by the state, Democratic Socialists want the entire economy to be controlled by the state which can incur large costs and ultimately caused one of the first big divides of the UK labour party between those who wanted to save money by only nationalizing essential services and those who wanted to establish a socialist state. However in the modern day several Demsocs have come up with new versions of democratic socialism such as fiscal localism, where local communities are put first with tariffs and subsidizes given to keep full employment and avoid the deindustrialization that destroyed unions' political power across the west.

Another form of democratic socialism is with the implementation of Market Socialism where the state implements plans such as Employee funds which would've seen unions control every company in Sweden approximately 20 years after implementation.

Personality

Democratic socialism usually behaves like a softer version of File:Soc.png Socialism or like a harder version of Social Democracy. He 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:

  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!
Color Name 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:

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

Relations

Friends

Frenemies

  • Conservative Socialism - I like your economic takes, but not your social takes.
  • De Leonism - I do agree with you that trade unions are important in the establishment of Socialism, but it seems somewhat unlikely in the modern day that we could use a political party to peacefully bring about socialism. (Thank you for teaching me the ways of Marx though)
  • Titoism - Authoritarian tankie, but still better than the others. Pulling back Stalin was mega based. (Killing fascists in pits was even more based)
  • Tridemism - Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles of the People are based but you went down the drain quickly by Chiang Kai-shek's oppressive right-wing dictatorship and Maoist totalitarian communist tyranny, now I don't know what you are anymore.
  • 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?!
  • Chavismo - A little too authoritarian but I still oppose any actions against you since that would be neocon 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.
  • Civic Nationalism - I mean I don't hate you but you are too economically liberal quite often.
  • Social Liberalism - You are way too moderate! But we often have to work together in coalition governments.
  • Social Capitalism - Same as above but even worse.
  • Trotskyism - You were part of us in the past, Then you betrayed us by joining 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 dictatorship and his Islamofascist allies, but why do you also think that I am a PKK supporter?
  • Anarcho-Conservatism - Anarchism and Conservatism are both bad. But Orwell is based.
  • European Federalism - Most of my followers are sceptical of you, but some of my followers support you.

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  1. ↑ https://reformandrevolution.org/2021/09/08/whos-who-in-dsa-a-guide-to-dsa-caucuses/
  2. ↑ https://reformandrevolution.org/2021/09/08/whos-who-in-dsa-a-guide-to-dsa-caucuses/
  3. ↑ https://youtube.com/watch?v=anIJ-SGULvw
  4. ↑ Clement Attlee believed "a conscientious constitutional Monarch is a strong element of stability and continuity in our constitution.”
  5. ↑ https://quotefancy.com/quote/1341913/Jawaharlal-Nehru-I-have-long-believed-that-the-only-way-peace-can-be-achieved-is-through
  6. ↑ https://jacobin.com/2020/02/olof-palme-sweden-prime-minister-chile-allende
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