Participatory Socialism: why not popularized vs. "democratic socialism"?

[Die Neue Zeit]

After all the problems that have arisen with "democratic socialism," why hasn't the term Participatory Socialism been popularized on the left?

This advantageously raises socialist consciousness inside the working class but outside the class movement, while expressing the political rejection of the dead-end “democratic socialism” that puts parliamentarism above socialist aims, and also of the hyper-activist minority aims masked as “revolutionary socialism.”

[Victus Mortuum]

Interesting, I remember you mentioning this before.

This is a term you have proposed that I believe could be incredibly useful for the left. I think it would be important to develop a collaborative critique of 'democratic' and 'revolutionary' socialist tendencies and explain that while 'participatory' socialism pushes for democracy, it supports some form of proletarian/participatory democracy not bourgeois pseudo-democracy and that while it pushes for revolution it does not support an offensively violent socialist minority revolution, only self-defensive 'violence' of the people against a violent counter-revolution by the exploitive and oppressive minority.

I'm not sure if others believe that this may be a legitimate direction to move, but if so perhaps we should put a group together and start reaching out and developing a legitimate basis for the term...