Due to history, many East-Europeans (and US apparently) seem to understand socialism as communist dictatorship, because soviet puppets liked to call themselves that.
if you say “democratic socialism” everybody seems to understand it more as the Nordic model.
Political propaganda really likes to use that confusion.
For me, it’s simply that socialism is a sliding scale.
Did you help out the grandmother that had fallen off her mobility device on the sidewalk? Congratulations, you’re partly SOCIALIST. She didn’t pay for that assistance and yet you gave her value anyway.
Due to history, many East-Europeans (and US apparently) seem to understand socialism as communist dictatorship, because soviet puppets liked to call themselves that.
if you say “democratic socialism” everybody seems to understand it more as the Nordic model.
Political propaganda really likes to use that confusion.
For me, it’s simply that socialism is a sliding scale.
Did you help out the grandmother that had fallen off her mobility device on the sidewalk? Congratulations, you’re partly SOCIALIST. She didn’t pay for that assistance and yet you gave her value anyway.
The nordic model is social democracy. There’s a big difference. Democratic socialism is socialism but just through election instead of revolution.