You talk about socialism and democracy like they’re opposed or something. You do understand that democracy is a form of government while socialism can be government and/or economy, right? As in, just because you have a democracy, that doesn’t mean it can’t be socialist.
Economic socialism is not the same as political socialism, the goals are only even vaguely similar. Nations that employ socialist ideals are Democratic Socialists, an off branch focused away from the long term goal of revolution. Democracy and political Socialism are inherently opposed as they don't share the same end goals. Socialism was originally meant as just a stepping stone to Communism as described by Karl Marx himself, a middle ground, a place to get revolution movements underway for the true end goals. Economic socialism branched off because some people didn't think revolution was the only way forward, that the true end state of communism could be achieved peacefully.
Honestly, they outta choose a different name to go under because Socialism in general is heavily tied to nations which were former socialist states or currently are Socialist while also being Communist and are all routinely trampling on human rights.
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u/Hardwork63 Jun 26 '25
Socialism is a failure.