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Unfortunately the center-left - the socialist democrats, the most popular faction on the left - does not reject capitalism, rather they want to builds on it. The "I can fix her" league.
These are also the guys most prone to be provoked into cultural war by the right, completely abandoning the class war.
Gauche caviar. They are not socialist, they would call themselves the democratic socialists if they were, but that would require of them to completely abandon any loyalty to the current system and focus on eating the rich that fund them.
I feel there are many as well who know capitalism needs to go away, but also understand that sudden change will cost many lives and violent revolution doesn't guarantee that you'll end up any better off, and as a result are trying to go for a "soft landing". Downside is that takes a lot of time and needs to have successively more progressive governments and policies in place each election cycle. Given the "tick-tock" pattern of switching between D and R administrations, this simply does not happen.
Always odd when people are more concerned with potential damage caused by change than the massive amounts of damage caused everyday by the current reality.
Basically every major social Democrat party in the EU has Democratic Socialism as part of their official platform.