Social democracy is a social, economic, and political philosophy within socialism
There’s nothing to teach: you’re just wrong.
An impure economy doesn’t make their philosophy non-socialist.
It promotes a welfare state with a corporatist system of collective bargaining.
It’s a gradualist, reformist, democratic approach to socialism.
The US economy is also impure: firms don’t own public services, run welfare, or regulate the markets.
By your reasoning, “having characteristics of capitalism” doesn’t “make it capitalist”.
Even economies of USSR & China were/are state capitalist according to communists.
Most current communist groups descended from the Maoist ideological tradition still adopt the description of both China and the Soviet Union as being state capitalist from a certain point in their history onwards—most commonly, the Soviet Union from 1956 to its collapse in 1991 and China from 1976 to the present.
There’s nothing to teach: you’re just wrong. An impure economy doesn’t make their philosophy non-socialist. It promotes a welfare state with a corporatist system of collective bargaining. It’s a gradualist, reformist, democratic approach to socialism.
The US economy is also impure: firms don’t own public services, run welfare, or regulate the markets. By your reasoning, “having characteristics of capitalism” doesn’t “make it capitalist”.
Even economies of USSR & China were/are state capitalist according to communists.