Is the nation imperialist?
If yes, social imperialists.
If no, social democrats.
Pretty damn simple.
Yeah that was where the real distinction evolved. In Europe and the US opportunists were happy to redistribute the wealth of the global periphery to their nation’s proletariat and call it socialism. The global periphery redistributing it’s own wealth from its bourgeoisie to its own working classes isn’t particularly evil though.
there was a good reply by some smart lady about him on here, let me just find it…ah! Here we go:
the sole exception of Jeremy Corbyn who was quite obviously only a socdem of necessity, it’s clearly not his actual ideology.
See? I said she was smart.