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Not this again. Did it go down the memory hole again, the fact that the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was originally called the Social Democratic Labor Party of Russia?

What will be the course of this revolution? Above all, it will establish a democratic constitution, and through this, the direct or indirect dominance of the proletariat. […] Democracy would be wholly valueless to the proletariat if it were not immediately used as a means for putting through measures directed against private property and ensuring the livelihood of the proletariat. …

— The Principles of Communism

(T)he first step in the revolution by the working class will be to raise the proletariat to the level of ruling class to win the battle of democracy. …

— Communist Manifesto, chapter 2

“Democratic socialist” is just another name for Marxist.

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Giancarlo Sopo is a writer at The Blaze and was a 2019 regional fellow at the National Review Institute. …

Ah; no wonder Signor Sopo is ignorant of the fact that there is no distinction between Marxism and “democratic socialism”.