Honestly seems like a parody to me. I have never seen liberals refer to Marxism as scientific. It completely undermines their conception of themselves as the smartest people in the room.
edit: I also know two people who refer to themselves as democratic socialists. This is basically shorthand for: I'm an imperialist, I love the police, I hate the idea of minorities of any kind having any kind of power at work or at home, but I want universal health care and I think Republicans are super dumb and the Democrats can do no wrong.
One is a local newspaper reporter in his sixties who once spent the entire morning talking about how he wanted to marry Mazie Hirono. The other is this very weird petite bourgeois Gen-X white woman who spends all day posting Neil DeGrasse Tyson memes on her Facebook page.
Honestly seems like a parody to me. I have never seen liberals refer to Marxism as scientific. It completely undermines their conception of themselves as the smartest people in the room.
edit: I also know two people who refer to themselves as democratic socialists. This is basically shorthand for: I'm an imperialist, I love the police, I hate the idea of minorities of any kind having any kind of power at work or at home, but I want universal health care and I think Republicans are super dumb and the Democrats can do no wrong.
Those people sound insufferable beyond belief.
One is a local newspaper reporter in his sixties who once spent the entire morning talking about how he wanted to marry Mazie Hirono. The other is this very weird petite bourgeois Gen-X white woman who spends all day posting Neil DeGrasse Tyson memes on her Facebook page.