What Is Democratic Socialism?
Everybody’s talking about democratic socialism these days. Here’s what you need to know about it.
A rally for Medicare for All in Los Angeles, CA in February 2017. Molly Adams / Flickr
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s upset victory in New York City in June added fuel to the fire that Bernie Sanders started in 2016: a resurgence of interest in democratic socialism. And there is no strand of left politics that provokes more confusion than democratic socialism.
All of a sudden, it seems everybody wants to know what democratic socialism is. Here’s what you need to know.
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Some commentators have tried to invent differences between the kind of society “democratic socialists” fight for and the kind envisioned by so-called “traditional socialists.” On MSNBC, Stephanie Ruhle confidently declared that democratic socialists make “no call for communal ownership of production.”
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