Democratic socialism is not communism, for the record. For one, arsenic their sanction suggests, antiauthoritarian socialists judge successful a antiauthoritarian authorities — communist states are not democracies.
"Democratic socialists judge successful elections, the First Amendment — [they] privation mean radical to person much powerfulness successful a much antiauthoritarian system," 1 adept told TIME. "In communist countries, the authorities controls everything and a tiny radical of radical power the state, a tyrannical system."