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Adam's avatar

Here in Austria, the Communist Party has found success running on a platform essentially the same as Mamdani’s. Does that mean they’re democratic socialists? In a certain sense, yes, but they still identify as Communists because that’s the specific socialist political tradition they come from – a political tradition that had radically democratic origins that are now being reclaimed, in spite of the tradition’s Stalinist degeneration.

The other socialist political tradition in Europe with a relevant level of support today is, ironically, Social Democracy, which has of course almost entirely accommodated itself to capitalism by this point.

Democratic Socialism is also its own specific tradition, rooted in the DSOC/NAM merger into DSA and the works of Michael Harrington – the only anti-capitalist tradition with any degree relevance in the US today.

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Taylor in Seattle's avatar

Pretty critical typo at the beginning of the article! After the NYT quote, the next paragraph says Democratic Socialists want to shift power "from workers to corporations" and it is definitely the opposite lol

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