What do you think socialism really is?

I thought I explained it in my original post? People like Bernie Sanders are actually democratic socialists but his policies are NOT indicative of democratic socialism, but social democracy.

Democratic Socialism is kind of an uneeded term since socialism must include an implementation of democracy. The term was made in the mid 20th century solely to distinguish itself from the states that called themselves Marxist-Leninist and in turn, socialist.

Democratic Socialism is an umbrella term for basic and core socialism, where the economy doesn't include private property, but cooperative property. Like I said in my original post, personal property is distinguished from private property as private property is basically an owner can own property to accumulating wealth from it without actually stepping foot on it. They pay other people to occupy that property to work and produce wealth in turn for wage labor. They get most of the wealth from the product of the workers while the workers get a wage barely indicative of their work into the product.

In turn, cooperatives are property owned by workers, you pay people based on democratically decided decisions based on who did the most work and specifications. A manager may or may not be present, but they own a same stake in the company as the workers do, and so everyone has a stake in what they're working for. An accountant, manager, representative, etc are also considered workers.

Democratic Socialism is the basic implementation of socialism where the economy may or may not be made up of a market system, but must include workers cooperatives as the standard of the economy rather than private organizations that make money off waged labor.

The idea behind it is simply that the people who are affected by the decisions make the decisions. The people who are part of the process, decide the process.

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