Turn Leftist Collab: On Democratic Socialism
Rev Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2021
⏱️ 141 minutes
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Turn Leftist Podcast Episode 47: We're joined by none other than Breht of RevLeft Radio! In this episode we discuss, analyze, and critique democratic socialism.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, welcome back to the turn leftist podcast. I'm Mike he him and tonight I'm here with Sterling he him word be him |
| 0:06.8 | Cosper they them and tonight we have a very special guest right Oce from the Revlet podcast. How you doing Brett? Hey, I'm doing great |
| 0:14.5 | It's an honor to be here. I'm excited to talk with all of you about |
| 0:18.0 | Democratic socialism on the failures of electoralism and whatever else comes across the conversation absolutely man |
| 0:23.9 | We're honored to have you I can't tell you how excited him to do this |
| 0:26.2 | Thank you so much for joining us. So yeah the topic tonight will be Democratic socialism |
| 0:31.1 | And so I thought a good place to start would be just to define what is Democratic socialism? |
| 0:36.0 | You know this being kind of a podcast for baby leftists and newbies and everything |
| 0:40.5 | I figured I would just define what it is to begin with so let me just get to my notes here |
| 0:45.8 | Good luck. I know right |
| 0:49.2 | So Democratic socialism and this is literally just a quick overview. I took from Wikipedia |
| 0:53.2 | So Democratic socialism is a left-wing political philosophy that supports political democracy within a socially owned economy |
| 0:59.7 | With a particular emphasis on economic democracy workplace democracy and worker self-management within a market socialist economy |
| 1:06.5 | Or an alternative form of a decentralized plan socialist economy |
| 1:10.4 | Democratic Socialists argue that capitalism is inherently incompatible with the values of freedom, equality and solidarity |
| 1:16.9 | And that these ideals can only be achieved through the realization of a socialist society |
| 1:20.6 | Although most Democratic Socialists seek a gradual reform is transitioned to socialism |
| 1:25.3 | Democratic Socialism can support revolutionary politics as means to establish socialism |
| 1:30.0 | Which I'm a little skeptical of but uh as a term |
| 1:36.0 | As a term democratic socialism was popularized by socialists who were opposed to the authoritarian backsliding in the Soviet Union and other nations during the 20th century |
| 1:44.6 | Democratic socialism is contrasted with Marxism-Leninism |
| 1:47.2 | Which is often perceived as being authoritarian and undemocratic in practice |
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