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JFC. It's sad to see so many people on my timeline conflating social programs and social democracy with democratic socialism. The least y'all could do is read up on the difference.
Democratic socialism = anti-capitalism. Social Democracy = reformed capitalism. Social programs ≠ socialism. Fire departments, police, social security ≠ socialism.
Socialism = public ownership of the means of production, and democratic control of the economy by workers who produce via their labor. This means in the simplest of simpleton that the surplus value of your labor will not be extracted nor exploited for profit by private owners.
Bernie Sanders = social democrat (reformed capitalist). Don't get me wrong, most of the programs he's pushing forward, we need. However. definition and terminology matters.
It disgusts me the most to see people refer to the police & military as "socialist programs" or "socialist.. [anything]." The police is a violent institution that reinforces & protects private property. These are not institutions of democracy, these are institutions of violence.
