When is it Democratic Socialism?

What is Democratic Socialism? What makes it different than Socialism, Communism, Marxism or Social Democracy? As self-described democratic socialists, like Mayor Mamdani, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bring the term to the mainstream, it felt like a good moment to dive into the history of the term, and to explore the central tension to be found in any social democratic movement: reform or revolution?

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00:44 Manifesto for 1848
40:13 Interlude: Inevitability
01:29:15 Marxism to Orthodoxy
02:27:23 Revisionism
02:56:54 Reform or Revolution
03:22:50 Social Democracy vs Democratic Socialism
04:03:18 Defining the 'types'

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