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Yes, he calls himself a Democratic Socialist while being a Social Democrat, I’m aware.

Left wing in the modern context refers to anti-Capitalism.

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Left-wing has always had a loose, relative meaning, and arguing otherwise isn’t attempting to stop the Overton Window from shifting. It’s just an attempt to gatekeep who gets to be a, “real,” leftist.

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No, it’s getting people aligned on terms so proper organizing can happen. Liberals will never align with anticapitalists, for instance.

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Right. So, you want to take the term, “left-wing,” which has held different meanings in different contexts over more than two centuries and redefine as exclusively anti-capitalist, so you can tell liberals that they’re not actually left-wing. Now that’s an attempt to shift the Overton Window.

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