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In reply to the discussion: Which of these do you consider yourself? [View all]Celerity
(43,796 posts)the US) label, and also a false label (as the label's definitions are NOT met) simply at the whim and wish of some small group (the extremely problematic DSA at the core of this) cosplaying out a DYI pseudo version of Das Kapital mixed with a community college level student's review of Pepper's Eco-Socialism.
It serves no good purpose whatsoever. It is false academically, it is false in the common parlance of everyday life, and it gives the domestic enemies of American democracy a war hammer with which to assault and grievously wound the Democratic Party, the only major political institution of systemic import standing in the breach, attempting to stop a white nationalist christofascist theocracy from arising.
Just self-identify (and correctly so, I might add) as adherents and advocates for social democracy and be done with it.
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So WHY insist on the label Democratic Socialist????
That is literally a self-inflicted political wound (and a false label as well) for all of the reasons I have laid out.