<P> The term is sometimes used to refer to policies within capitalism as opposed to an ideology that aims to transcend and replace capitalism, though this is not always the case . For example, Robert M. Page, a reader in Democratic Socialism and Social Policy at the University of Birmingham, writes about "transformative democratic socialism" to refer to the politics of the Clement Attlee government (a strong welfare state, fiscal redistribution and some public ownership) and "revisionist democratic socialism" as developed by Anthony Crosland and Harold Wilson: </P> <P> The most influential revisionist Labour thinker, Anthony Crosland..., contended that a more "benevolent" form of capitalism had emerged since the (Second World War)... According to Crosland, it was now possible to achieve greater equality in society without the need for "fundamental" economic transformation . For Crosland, a more meaningful form of equality could be achieved if the growth dividend derived from effective management of the economy was invested in "pro-poor" public services rather than through fiscal redistribution . </P> <P> Some proponents of market socialism see it as an economic system compatible with the political ideology of democratic socialism . </P> <P> The term "democratic socialism" can be used even another way to refer to a version of the Soviet model that was reformed in a democratic way . For example, Mikhail Gorbachev described perestroika as building a "new, humane and democratic socialism". Consequently, some former Communist parties have rebranded themselves as democratic socialist, as with the Party of Democratic Socialism in Germany . </P>

What are the main features of democratic socialism