Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "Doesn't "social democracy" sound like socialism?" video.

  1. "Social democracy" and "democratic socialism" used to mean the same thing. It's, basically, mixing in as much socialism as democracy will take you. If you socialize a sector of the economy (say healthcare or health insurance), then you've added a little socialism to the capitalism. Modern "social democracies" seem to have paused around centrism (the centre between full capitalism and full socialism, a fairly even mix of both).
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  2.  @nerodia  Denmark, for example, has a 35% public sector workforce. On top of that, they have a 70+% unionized workforce, which isn't ownership, but does give more power to workers, to determine what they're worth. On top of that, they have multiple socialized sectors of the economy (healthcare, education through college, nationalized wind power, etc.). Like I said, "social democracies" seem to have paused around centrism, which isn't exactly just a kind of "capitalism". It's a fairly even mix of both capitalism and socialism.
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