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Who are you talking about? AOC? If your definition of a democratic socialist is a left-leaning Democrat then it is thoroughly incompatible with mine, because I would require at a minimum that anybody classified as any kind of "socialist" be staunchly opposed to Capital.
I'm talking about Emmanuel Goldstein. Anyone I can possibly list will never meet your purity test.
Yes. We purity test. People who support capitalism cannot be counted upon to overthrow it. Glad we're on the same page.
Don't forget to send me a text when the revolution starts, comrade.
The purity test of having the wherewithal to oppose the economic system killing the earth and everyone on it.