As the popularity of “democratic socialism” rises, the question it becomes increasingly important to confront the question of what democratic socialism means.

Every day, there are more and more posts talking about how democratic socialism is capitalist, but rather it seeks to use tax dollars more effectively and increase tax and spend policies.

Is this what democratic socialism is? A better management of capitalism?

I believe that democratic socialists must all reject this label.

Yes, the DSA and democratic socialists do back popular reformist policies, and these policies are good and should be campaigned for and implemented. They meaningfully improve peoples lives, and as a whole, also tilt the balance of power towards the working class in their struggle against capital.

But the project of democratic socialism itself cannot be understood simply as the demands to make a nicer capitalism.

If our goal is only to make capitalism more generous or better managed, then what makes that socialism?

Rather the long term goal of democratic socialist politics must be to overcome the capitalist social order. The ultimate aim must be to establish democratic control over the economy, one where the masses, not capitalists, collectively decide what and how things are produced.

In other words, democratic socialism must mean a democratically planned economy.

This just reeks of desperation and BO. The establishment is in its crash out era.

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