[cygx]

But you do know that historically, 'Social Democratic' is just a name chosen by European socialist parties for themselves? The membership list[1] of the Party of European Socialists (known as Europeiska socialdemokratiska partiet in Swedish) reflects this to this day.

It is of course true that a Social Democracy is not a fully socialist society, but that discussion was already had last century during the Revisionismusdebatt kicked off by Eduard Bernstein in 1896.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_of_European_Socialists#M...

[zajio1am]

Yes, but these parties use 'social democratic' after a split of socialist parties in 1920s into social democratic parties and communist parties. So no need to use 'socialist' instead of 'social democratic' unless you want to dogwhistle to communist supporters.

Also note that this meaning of term 'socialist' is rather archaic (and not in opposition to term 'capitalist'). The modern meaning of 'socialism' is to describe economic system in countries of soviet communist bloc.

[cygx]

> Yes, but these parties use 'social democratic' after a split of socialist parties in 1920s

Depends on the country: The parties are still called 'socialist' to this day in Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain.

> The modern meaning of 'socialism' is to describe economic system in countries of soviet communist bloc.

Quote German Wikipedia on Sozialismus[1], which views Sozialdemokratie as one of its branches:

> Demzufolge wird auch grob zwischen den Ausrichtungen von Kommunismus, Sozialdemokratie oder Anarchismus differenziert.

> Hence one differentiates roughly between the strains of Communism, Social Democracy or Anarchism.

Quote Wikipedia on Sozialdemokratie[2]:

> Sozialdemokratie ist eine politische Bewegung und politische Ideologie der Linken, die sich selbst – mal mehr, mal weniger stark ausgeprägt – als Form eines reformistischen demokratischen Sozialismus betrachtet.

> Social Democracy is a political movement and political ideology of the left, which views itself - sometimes to a greater, sometimes to a lesser extent - as a form of reformist democratic socialism.

Quote Hamburger Programm, the German SPD's party platform[3]:

> The end of the soviet type state socialism did not disprove the idea of democratic socialism but it clearly confirmed the orientation of social democracy towards core values. In our understanding democratic socialism remains the vision of a free and fair society in solidarity. Its realization is a permanent task for us. The principle for our actions is social democracy.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sozialismus

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sozialdemokratie

[3] https://www.spd.de/fileadmin/Dokumente/Beschluesse/Grundsatz...