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He wasn't a communist or "hardcore" socialist but, well, the fully-sourced Wikipedia article can say it better than I can: - a few paragraphs into that section it gets to his "democratic socialist" stance. He isn't a socialist is the "traditional" sense but he had enough leanings that he himself used the term democratic socialism - in order to avoid the communist label! Today he probably would have come up with something else, since socialist is the word used to demonize people in today's media.

This is why you need to study the nuanced positions of political figures; labels are inadequate but often broad enough that they aren't necessarily inaccurate, and for some reason they're always evocative.