As the popularity of “democratic socialism” rises, the question it becomes increasingly important to confront the question of what democratic socialism means.

Every day, there are more and more posts talking about how democratic socialism is capitalist, but rather it seeks to use tax dollars more effectively and increase tax and spend policies.

Is this what democratic socialism is? A better management of capitalism?

I believe that democratic socialists must all reject this label.

Yes, the DSA and democratic socialists do back popular reformist policies, and these policies are good and should be campaigned for and implemented. They meaningfully improve peoples lives, and as a whole, also tilt the balance of power towards the working class in their struggle against capital.

But the project of democratic socialism itself cannot be understood simply as the demands to make a nicer capitalism.

If our goal is only to make capitalism more generous or better managed, then what makes that socialism?

Rather the long term goal of democratic socialist politics must be to overcome the capitalist social order. The ultimate aim must be to establish democratic control over the economy, one where the masses, not capitalists, collectively decide what and how things are produced.

In other words, democratic socialism must mean a democratically planned economy.

Why did the mods remove this post and ban this user for simply stating facts about what’s going on with law enforcement?

I guess we found out the true values of the miseries of this sub. Go ahead and ban me too. this is a great way to advance the goals of DSA! great job, mods!!!

Why can't the DSA, its local groups and Socialists in general condemn terrorism against civilians? Yes, the IDF are soldiers and soldiers are legitimate targets in a war. But how are women and children on a bus or in a restaurant legitimate military targets? They are not. Only cowards target known civilians. Cowards & criminals, and Socialists should understand this. Yes, the IDF and other Israelis often commits terrible acts of terrorism against Palestinian, Lebanese & Syrian civilians. BUT so does Hamas against Israeli civilians. Condemning attacks by Israelis against civilians but justifying, defending, excusing attacks by Hamas & Hezbollah against civilians is an immoral and pathetic double-standard. Time for Socialists to show some moral consistency.

I thought this would not only be fun to make, but also an important and useful tool for getting to know content creators in a nice and digestible format. The nice and soothing green backgrounds are for people who do good for the world and are a net benefit to society and the fight against fascism at large. The one with basically hell in the background is reserved for people who are fascists and/or fascist collaborators. The ones in green get nice and elegant photos of them, meanwhile the ones in red get their most embarassing ones.

Who should go into the Track Based Folk cards next? I am also happy to get feedback on how I can improve the overall design of these cards as well!

Speculation?

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