Follow-up Q: why don’t Bernie folks call it social democracy like everyone else in the social democratic west does and avoid having to use “socialism” (somewhat incorrectly) all the time? https://twitter.com/drvolts/status/1232164419225808896 …
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I rescind my precious tweet
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2. In 1960s/1970s, right-wing Shachtmanites transformed the old socialist party into Social Democrats, USA -- nominally a socialist formation but actually the birth of embryonic neo-conservatism (many members of SDUSA became Reaganites).
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3. In opposition to right-wing turn of Social Democrats USA, Michael Harrington created Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, later Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). It was in the context of these sectarian battles that people like Sanders called themselves socialists
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