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- Nov 26, 2016
I wouldn't even call social democracy a moderate position.Totally a social democrat and moderate, not at all far left.
A Social Democrat is pretty left, it's basically a nicer word for a full blown socialist hiding their powerlevels, being far more optical too because of all the leftist boogieman shit in mainstream politics brings nasty press. A social democrat won't oppose socialism at all, they will embrace it. A socialist will obviously deem a social democrat as some optical perversion of socialism (think of the leftist version of the word cuck, I know...), since it's about compromising with capitalism (profit driven, self-interest).
Democratic socialists are in favour of every single social democrat policy, and will go a lot further than that. They will get rid of the police, prisons, they will make essential shit such as scarce resources fully publicly owned, and all infrastructure planning will be democratically determined. This is different to say China's system of rule where planning is centralised, essential assets such as land, petrol, and scarce rocks (iron, copper, gold, cobalt etc) are publicly owned, or rather owned by the unitary statists, and its distribution is meticulously planned by educated elites of various sectors, which is inherently dictatorial. People like to call this state capitalist, not something I necessarily agree with since 100% of China's large ambitious projects are a huge drain in money, there's zero profits. China high speed rail for example, only 4 regions, Shanghai, Beijing, Jiangsu and Zhejiang saw any profit, the rest were losses well in the trillions, so the totality in profits is still an astronomically negative number.
Yeah, not far left I guess, basically far left. It's like a paleoconservative, you can call them far right and authoritarian, but they aren't as right wing or authoritarian as Pinochet or Deng Xiaoping. Obviously the left calls them all fascists, but that's kind of beyond the point since factions of the right does the same with socialist/communist labels.