Does Corbyn align himself with more traditional socialist views or is he a social democrat and why?

Jeremy Corbyn is known to be a hard core left winger of the labour party, and people associate Corbyn to be a traditional 'old fashioned' socialist. But there are many reasons as to why Corbyn may fall under the social democrat title.

The Labour party used to be a social democratic party, before 1997 when it was transformed to follow neoliberalist ideas, which is comparable to 'new labour', but now 2015 Jeremy Corbyn is now the new leader of the Labour party and in his movement he is gaining support from all different types of people. He is for benefits and a welfare state that benefits anyone and everyone, he believes that the state should assist and aid the country in times of need. For example he is extremely backing the NHS and aiming to stop the privatisation of health care in the UK. He follows the very socialist idea of 'people are social creatures that are bound together by a common humanity'. 

Shown where he wants to protect people at work by ending zero hour contracts and increasing the minimum wage, he is extremely for the working class and aims to achieve equality for all - "a society that accepts no barriers to everyone's talent and contribution. These ideas are very socialist, but Corbyn does show his social democratic stance when discussing that he wants to achieve a mixed economy.

 A mixed economy is where society is made up of a mix between private and public industry, this is stemmed from an ideology of nationalism. This is seen when Jeremy Corbyn discusses that he aims to "re-nationalise' the Royal Bank Of Scotland" and other public sectors. This is also shown when he says "Privatisation over the last four decades has been a history of the British people being robbed and the spivs snatching up the public assets being given the licence to print money. From the earliest privatisations of water, energy and rail to the PFI schemes from the last decade, it has been one long confidence trick." This here emphasises what Corbyn is striving for, a mixture between capitalism and state intervention where he aims to renationalise common, every day utilities.

To conclude, Corbyn's ideas can easily be mistaken for 'old labour' and traditional. But really he is trying to aid the growth of the country with a mixture of capitalism and state intervention: a social democracy.