• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    22 days ago

    Democratic socialists are reformists, and reformism cannot actually implement socialism. In practice, demsocs are therefore socdems.

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      20 days ago

      cannot actually implement socialism

      Nobody has actually implemented socialism.

      So I guess the correct statement is “reformists haven’t yet implemented socialism but they might”.

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        17 days ago

        Many countries have implemented socialism, the largest economy on the planet by PPP is socialist. Reformists can’t implement socialism because the state is not a neutral instrument, but instead has a class character.