By the end of World War II the divergence between democratic socialism and social democracy was something quite definitive, not merely a rhetorical convention, albeit with room for exceptions at both ends. Democratic socialists held out for some form of public or worker ownership, at least to some degree, and social democrats backed off from socializing enterprises, at least most of the time. This difference marks what should be called democratic socialism from social democracy.–a significant distinction., even as fluidity and exceptions are possible on both sides.
Gary Dorrien, American Democratic Socialism: History, Politics, Religion, and Theory, 13.
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