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[–] grue@lemmy.world 57 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I mean, sure, that's very funny, but please don't help feed the right-wing lie falsely equating democratic socialism with communism.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 45 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

To be clear, all socialism, communism included, is democratic. "Democratic Socialism" just refers to reformist socialism, in most cases, or is used to make social democracy seem more appealing. Mamdani has expressed support for more radical groups online, though, so it's clear that he isn't just your typical social democrat at minimum.

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

Oh man kerala reference

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 13 points 2 weeks ago

Why? Maybe if people understand that what they are scared with to be "communism" is affordable housing, public transport and education and not being harassed by police, they will break out of the propaganda alltogether.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think it's a bit confusing, but in my view almost all socialists (including democratic socialists) are communists since the end goal they are trying to achieve is communism. Socialism (which can be described as welfare state, majority-publicly owned capital, and planned or market-socialist economy) is almost always seen as a stepping stone towards communism (stateless, classless, moneyless society), even though it is would also be an improvement on its own.

(to confuse matters even further, Lenin's party was initially called Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, even though today's understanding of social-democracy would only apply to the Menshevik wing).

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yea, in the bolshevik's case back then Social Democracy was also used as a term for communism in some areas. Not so much anymore, but that makes reading older texts a bit confusing if you aren't aware of that.

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Was tempted to troll lemmygrad with this classic meme: https://lefty.pictures/post/view/15726

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Good meme, but it wouldn't work on grad, we did read enough theory to know the history behind that name.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Right, getting one past Lemmygrad is about as easy as getting past Stalingrad.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

Pretty sure they'd get the irony, lol. A tier shitpost