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Somebody who advocates for the installment of a socialist economy through democratic means (i.e. elections etc.)

The prime characteristics of such an economic system include:
- partial or complete governmental control over the means of production.
- a planned economy, in which the state determines how much of a certain product is made to combat wastefulness

Democratic socialists often also support:
- expanding social benefits, such as health care
- implementing or strengthening workers rights to participate in business decisions.
- more power to the trade unions
- setting a limit for wage gaps, e.g. top managers can't earn more than 20 times as much as the worker with the lowest wage
A: Bernie Sanders is a democratic Socialist.

B: Democratic socialism? Pff. That's an oxymoron! Socialism leads to autocracy and gulags!

B: I'm sorry, but you seem to be stuck in the fifties with all of the cold war propaganda.
by Chryasor October 15, 2020
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Dude, did you hear that Bernie is a Democratic Socialist? I never knew he hated America.
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