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Democratic socialism is just social democracy though in a literal sense. It is merely a difference in marketing. The social democrats historically have been revisionist and concessionary “socialists”.
Starting from its early usage, social democracy meant socialism. The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, once supported by Lenin, considered itself socialist. And I’d say that social democrats today still consider themselves socialists much of the time, just not “communists” or “Marxists” in requisite scare-quotes.
Yeah that is one of the issues with reading What Is To Be Done, it was written before the adoption of the word Communist by Lenin and Co to differentiate themselves from the revisionist Social Democrats. You know, those silly Bernsteinians. Eventually it became clear that some of the Social Democrats rejected the idea of revolution and instead were more interested in shaking hands with former Tsarists and appointing them to key roles in the provisional government.
So not that different then our current Democratic Socialists.