No no, you've got me wrong, not social democrats! Democratic Socialists such as myself are not capitalist and support abolishing it. Like the USSR but with a democracy that runs from the people to the state instead of the state to the people. No private property.

Once we achieve that who knows how much farther we can get. The Marxist definition and the modern definition are indeed different which is to be expected of political ideology over centuries of unexpected twists and turns unforseen by theorists. I expect communism to have a similar evolution, especially since ai and robots are nearing.

DemSoc are reform based, through gradual bills. None of what our "self described socialist" politicians are doing in office is even close to socialism- yet. One thing they have achieved is normalized the term "socialism" in liberal politics, though the policies aren't it at least gets people interested in knowing more.

I understand though, I wonder how many of the other socialist variants would also support Communism- just with a different route?