• kerrigan778@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      Lol they aren’t even full left, at all. We’ve deluded ourselves into thinking common sense and not being bought by the billionaires and corporate lobbies I’d “full left”

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      13 days ago

      As far as I know, they are social-democrats, full-left would be anti-capitalist or anarchist, which they are not.

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            13 days ago

            Isn’t it compatible with the democrat socialist philosophy of progressive change as opposed to a revolution?

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              13 days ago

              Yeah I was just clarifying that Bernie is not a democratic socialist himself, he just misuses the label (although that misuse is more common than not nowadays)

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                12 days ago

                What I am saying is that he may actually be one, but he pushes social democrat politics as progressive steps towards democratic socialism. Also probably by electoralism, to avoid scaring some voters.

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                  12 days ago

                  Looking into it further, you may be right. It looks like in his younger days he was more vocally socialist and pushed harder for more immediately and obviously socialist ideas but tempered that at some point, likely to make himself more appealing to win elections. Some people claim he is not a real socialist regardless because he is reformist.