To be fair, “democratic socialism” doesn’t really mean anything either. It’s used interchangeably between a socialist economy with liberal forms of democracy and reformist approaches to establishing socialism, it isn’t really a branch of thought with solid consistency. It’s also a misnomer, in that socialism itself is democratic, it’s like saying I like cold ice cream.
To be fair, “democratic socialism” doesn’t really mean anything either. It’s used interchangeably between a socialist economy with liberal forms of democracy and reformist approaches to establishing socialism, it isn’t really a branch of thought with solid consistency. It’s also a misnomer, in that socialism itself is democratic, it’s like saying I like cold ice cream.