https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDGhUyp2cZQ
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https://www.scarymommy.com/difference-between-democratic-socialism-and-social-democracy
The first two are the same thing and not what we want. When we say "democratic socialism" or "socialist democracy," we're effectively saying "socialism, chosen by the people.". What Sachs says we should call Scandinavian countries instead is "social democracies with mixed economies.". It may sound like an obsessively nitpicky

https://quillette.com/2018/12/26/democratic-socialism-or-social-democracy/
Democratic Socialism is a Scam. The failure of pundits to discern between democratic socialism and Nordic social democracy is not for a lack of transparency on the part of DSA. But nowhere in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's or Bernie Sanders's platforms do you find such rhetoric.

https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/8/1/17637028/bernie-sanders-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-cynthia-nixon-democratic-socialism-jacobin-dsa
Democratic socialists share goals with New Deal liberals. But they want to go further. Pooling society's resources to meet people's basic needs is a tenet of social democracy, one that's

https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/34324/chapter/291334753
Abstract. Social democracy has often been seen as a pragmatic compromise between capitalism and socialism. This chapter shows that social democracy is in fact a distinctive body of political thought: an ideology which prescribes the use of democratic collective action to extend the principles of freedom and equality valued by democrats in the political sphere to the organization of the economy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_democracy
Socialist democracy is a political system that aligns with principles of both socialism and democracy. It includes ideologies such as council communism, democratic socialism, social democracy, and soviet democracy, as well as Marxist democracy like the dictatorship of the proletariat. It was embodied in the Soviet system (1922-1991). [1]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-does-socialism-mean-and-how-is-it-shaping-2020/
Kazin said the socialism most Americans are embracing is what Europeans would call social democracy, a view associated with mainstream parties like the Labour Party in the U.K. and the SPD in Germany.

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/12/24/42383735/the-right-is-correct-nazism-was-socialism-but-they-still-dont-know-what-they-are-talking-about
Under great democratic pressure, these states had to make one of two choices to avoid a full-blown red revolution: either social democracy or socialism. Both demanded a massive expansion of the

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/15/socialism-post-capitalist-world/
The future depends on a social democracy that doesn't reshape capitalism but transcends it. It shouldn't be surprising that, in 2020, we're still talking about socialism. After all, in much

https://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1261&context=socs_fac
Democratic Socialism Isn't Social Democracy. T. he Nordic countries — Finland, Norway, and Sweden — are social democracies. They have constitutional representative democracies, extensive welfare benefits, corporatist collective bargaining between labor and capital that is managed by the state, and some state ownership of the economy.

https://medium.com/peoples-world/sanders-socialism-social-democracy-what-does-it-all-mean-15a8457242c6
For social democracy as it came to develop in the 20th century, improving the social, economic, and political system so that it's fairer for working people was the purpose of political action.

https://medium.com/@newfromdanone/social-democracy-what-is-it-405227aadc78
Social Democracy is a political ideology, centre left on the political spectrum. Further right than Democratic Socialism, and more left than the average Liberal Democrat (UK) or the nominally left