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There's a pretty big difference between a Social Democrat and a Democratic Socialist. Only learned that pretty recently myself
To be fair, "democratic socialism" doesn't really mean anything either. It's used interchangeably between a socialist economy with liberal forms of democracy and reformist approaches to establishing socialism, it isn't really a branch of thought with solid consistency. It's also a misnomer, in that socialism itself is democratic, it's like saying I like cold ice cream.
There isn't, democratic socialism is an oxymoron and exposes its inherent revisionist anti-socialist nature