US politics, often on both ends, semi-purposefully failing to acknowledge the difference between social democrats and socialists is both weirdly sticky and frankly makes it very hard to talk about politics with them at all.
Social democrats in places where this is not the case are so often considered borderline neoliberal, centrist traitors by communists and other far left people, and the distinction between liberalism and social democracy is seen as more a matter of nuance than between social democracy and communism.
Although I guess that’s changing because American fascists exported their playbook and now conservatives all over the world talk about “freedom” and push anarchocapitalist ideas they’ve copy-pasted from the mothership, so if anything everybody else is drifting towards this nonsense now.
US politics, often on both ends, semi-purposefully failing to acknowledge the difference between social democrats and socialists is both weirdly sticky and frankly makes it very hard to talk about politics with them at all.
Social democrats in places where this is not the case are so often considered borderline neoliberal, centrist traitors by communists and other far left people, and the distinction between liberalism and social democracy is seen as more a matter of nuance than between social democracy and communism.
Although I guess that’s changing because American fascists exported their playbook and now conservatives all over the world talk about “freedom” and push anarchocapitalist ideas they’ve copy-pasted from the mothership, so if anything everybody else is drifting towards this nonsense now.