Trump does not want a salary, and the SJWs are going insane. America is bananas.

[VGPolyglot]

JWeinCom said:

VGPolyglot said:

There's a huge difference. Social democracy is a mixed market with capitalism still existing but there being high taxes and many social services in order to try to make sure that there's a minimum standard of living. Socialism is worker's control over the means of production, in other words the employees have control of the company and directly decide themselves what will happen with the fruits of their labour, instead of a top-down system where a CEO and a few other people determine what will happen, which means that taxes and a welfare state are unnecessary as wealth is already evenly distributed so they don't need to be redistributed. I can understand why people would be confused, especially when the right demonizes the term and when the centrists misuse it.

And then what is the distinction between that and democratic socialism?

I'm not sure what the etymology of democratic socialism is, but I assume that it was meant to be for socialists who were against the authoritarian regimes of the Soviet Union, China, etc. and wanted an actual democratic socialist society.