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Social Democracy, often clipped to SocDem (or Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination SuccDem by ideologies that disagree or despise it), is an economically centre-left ideology. It is usually Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination culturally left, albeit not exclusively. It advocates for Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination strong welfare programs, unionization, with the addition of vast Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination regulation to promote Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination social justice. It is often confused with Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Democratic Socialism, or sometimes socialism in general (which is largely seen as a US phenomenon in the modern day). Despite often being called a "socialist" by right-wing ideologies, Social Democracy is often excluded from Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination leftist circles as well due to their support for merely reforming Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination capitalism as an end-goal rather than abolishing it. Social Democracy finds that a lot of welfare programs and business regulations, when achieved through Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination reform rather than revolution, can lead to higher prosperity for the proletariat, rather than systems of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination unregulated capitalism or Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination socialism

Variants

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Left-Social Democracy Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination

Left-Social Democracy is a variant of social democracy which often expresses advocacy for Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination protectionsm or Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination economic nationalism, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination left-wing populism, a mixed economy (though some support full on Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination market socialist economics), and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination state guidance of the economy. British left-social democrats (the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Labour Party until the 1950s more specifically) espoused Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination imperialism, seeing the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Empire as the best way to spread their economic model globally. A lot of the social democrats after World War II would adopt Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Keynesian economics to their policy prescriptions, seeing demand-side economics as most compatible with their ideals of high unionization and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination welfarism. Something which divides left-social democrats is the willingness to transition the economy out of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination capitalism, as many stick true to their Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination anti-capitalist roots. All classical social democrats would fall under this category. Most all Left-Social Democrats support some level of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Workplace Democracy whether it is implemented partially under a capitalist organization or completely under a market socialist organization of the economy.

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Right-Social Democracy Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination

Right-Social Democracy is the right-wing variant of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Social Democracy. The ideology believes that equality and social justice are valid aspirational goals, but favor market-based means to achieve them; expressing concerns with balanced budgets and government overreach. Most right-social democrats follow the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Third Way, which is a compromise between Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination neoliberalism and the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination social market economy; although many Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Christian Democratic parties can be described as right-socdems. The best examples of right-wing social democracy is the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination United Kingdom under Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Tony Blair and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Thailand under Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Thaksin Shinawatra.

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Libertarian Social Democracy

Libertarian Social Democracy is a economically centre-left and civically libertarian ideology. It is considered a more moderate form of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination left-libertarianism. It supports basic Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination social democratic principals and policies but with an added focus on Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination civil liberties and is opposed to rampant Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination statism outside of the economy. They also tend to support Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Direct Democracy and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Non-Interventionist foreign policy. Notable examples of Libertarian Socdems include late former Alaska senator Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Mike Gravel, left-wing political commentator and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination youtuber Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Kyle Kulinski and former Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Democratic presidential candidate, author and activist Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Marianne Williamson.

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Economic Progressivism, or Fiscal Progressivism, is a form of Social Democracy that is a political and economic philosophy incorporating the socioeconomic principles of social democrats and political progressives. Economic Progressivism is rooted in social justice through improving human conditions through government regulation and social protections. So, economic progressivism differs from social market capitalism to socialism, and critiques capitalism in ways such as: market fundamentalism, wage slavery, "socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor" as well as rugged individualism.

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Social Feminism

Social Feminism is a feminist movement that advocates for social rights and special accommodations for women. It was first used to describe members of the women's suffrage movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who were concerned with social problems that affected women and children. They saw obtaining the vote mainly as a means to achieve their reform goals rather than a primary goal in itself. After women gained the right to vote, social feminism continued in the form of labor feminists who advocated for protectionist legislation and special benefits for women. Although the validity of the term "social feminism" is highly disputed between historians and its original usage.

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Green Social Democracy

Green social democracy also known as centre left environmentalism is an ideology that wants strong regulation, powerful unions and Keynesian economics but believes that the environment comes first always and may break with Keynesian economics i.e., infinite growth on a planet with finite resources and side against unions i.e Green SocDems want to close down all the coal mines, something labour unions obviously do not want. They are usually fiercely protectionist, to lower CO2 emissions from transportation but also to protect workers. Though this is not hard and fast.

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Social Nationalism

Social Nationalism is in its most basic definition is a Nationalist state with a social economy range from left social democracy to Rhine capitalism and potentially more right-wing systems. The nationalist state by nature would be authoritarian but social nationalism acknowledges the problems with unchecked power and supports a constitution which would control the power the executive holds, its modern form is also a traditionalist ideology that is against gay marriage and believes that the three purposes of life are Nation, God and Love. However, the traditional version of social nationalism was much more progressive in its historical context. This ideology is not to be confused with Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Nazism. It has seen a rise in support amongst Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination national populist European groups and may present itself as a status quo in Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination conservative countries like Poland and Hungary. Historical examples that are close to socnat include: Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Kemalist Turkey, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Nationalist China under the KMT, and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party, and Poland under Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Józef Piłsudski. It believes:

  • We shouldn’t strive for laissez faire capitalism, because that will lead to a degenerate culture of materialism and consumerism and we should not strive for communism either as it is inefficient and would weaken the nation
  • Economics should be somewhat flexible so that the system that best suits the people is what gets implemented.
  • Most immigration to a country should be from culturally similar nations & people and limited to only the most skilled. Actual refugees should go to the nearest stable country that offers asylum and if no one is willing to house them then they must remain in their homeland.
  • Economic migrants should be highly restricted to the needs of the nation and from nations similar ethnically and culturally to us for easy assimilation. If they have broken the law they should either be deported or imprisoned (Depending on how serious the crime is)
  • Nationalism, Social collectivism and Traditionalism should be taught in every school, aligning with the virtues that would be important to teach to youth, while other values like discipline, high work ethic, honesty and unity would be encouraged
  • Intervention in foreign countries to spread nationalism further and for national gain is necessary, but a diplomatic option should always be tried first.

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Militant Social Democracy

Militant Social Democracy (MilSocDem) is an economically centre-left, statist, strongly patriotic, culturally centrist and militaristic ideology which supports the combination of social democratic economic policies, such as a capitalist market economy heavily regulated in favour of the working class, an abundance of social programs and public ownership of businesses such as education and healthcare, with the belief that a strong military capability, "predominance of the armed forces in the administration of the state" and glorification of the military is needed in an ideal society and that the nation should be prepared to use military force in order to defend or promote its national interests.

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Cosmopolitan Social Democracy

Cosmopolitan Social Democracy is a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination culturally progressive, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination globalist, and economically Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination center-left ideology that seeks to establish a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination global institution of democracy under Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination social democratic principles, and the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination global justice movement that supports globalization, but opposes Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination economic globalization. He wants to protect Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination civil rights and promote economic justice globally with these principles in mind.

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Agrarian Social Democracy

Agrarian Social Democracy (also known as Social Agrarianism) is a center-left political ideology which combines Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Agrarianism with Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Social Democracy. He stresses widespread ownership of wealth-generating property, political decentralization, and a preference for small communities in the context of a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination well-regulated market economy with Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination generous welfare programs. Despite having similar goals to Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Christian Democracy and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Distributism, he tends to support Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Secularism and other Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination progressive causes. (The ideology itself is culturally variable, however.) He can also be seen as a moderate form of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Agrarian Socialism.

Core Tenants

Though not to the extent of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Socialism, Agrarian Social Democracy is more radical in his opposition to economic inequality than SocDem. Especially after the latter adopted a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination pro-growth neoliberal stances in the late 20th century. He believes excess inequality, monopoly, and monopsony is a threat to democratic institutions and human rights; through Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination lobbying and bribery the wealthiest have the loudest voices, breeding avraice and corruption. AgSocDem prefers local-level production and consumption.

This contempt for inequality and preference for localism manifests in the form of suppressing wealth concentration in favor of widespread property ownership. He has various means of achieving this, although not universally accepted by his followers, including:

AgSocDem supports Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination locally-owned businesses, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination worker-owned enterprises (which are usually small-scale), Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination collective farms, and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination smallholdings. He sees small-scale producers as more innovative, accountable, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination greener, and a stepping stone towards Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination autonomous local communities. Loans for entry-level farmers, tax incentives for agricultural co-ops, and discouraging land speculation also empowers rural areas.

However, in cases of natural monopoly and necessary economies of scale like electricity and aircraft manufacturing, AgSocDem usually supports Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination state-owned enterprises (SOEs) or sovereign wealth funds (SWFs). Profits generated will go towards Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination safety nets, infrastructure, education, and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination subsidies for local entrepreneurs. A great example of this is the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO)—a for-profit state-owned enterprise which sells alcohol in shops. LCBO's profits, ranging in the billions, go towards Ontario's provincial programs and functions. As of 2019 they sell hard liquor, wine, and beer.

AgSocDem also supports decentralized Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination welfare programs and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination regulatory agencies. Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Canada's Medicaid is a great example of the former—it is mandated and funded primarily by the federal government, but provincially and locally supplied. Most welfare programs in Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Denmark are coordinated and financed on the municipal level. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in the United States Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination is a regulatory agency; though having a federal office which sets minimum standards, the rest is handled by regional, state, and local offices with autonomy.

AgSocDem is culturally variable. In the West he's usually a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination civil libertarian; others are Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination progressive, seeing urban inequality as holding back positive scientific, medical, and technological advances. Followers tends to like Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination direct democracy and a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination constitution protecting human rights. Many AgSocDem followers may see a strong central government as necessary for creating their ideal system. Others may champion achieving their reforms on the local or provincial level instead.

Summary of tenants

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Distributist Social Democracy

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Distributist Social Democracy, clipped to DistSocDem, is an Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination economically centre-left and culturally variable ideology which seeks widespread ownership of the means of production and a strong welfare state—combining Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Social Democracy with Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Distributism. Such an economic model is in sharp contrast to Social Democracy's common present-day manifestation, which is more Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination neoliberal in character. It can also be seen as Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Social Distributism without the influence of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Fourth Theory.

Socialdemocracia Cristiana

La socialdemocracia cristiana, cristiana, es una forma de democracia cristiana y socialdemocracia que es de centro-izquierda en su economía, culturalmente variable (dependiendo de la teología) y cívicamente variable. Se diferencia del neoliberalismo de centro-derecha que a menudo practica esta ideología con su apoyo al distribucionismo económico (depende, no siempre), una economía de mercado mixta / social y un estado de bienestar justificado bajo las enseñanzas de la teología cristiana.

Historia

Historically, Social Democracy was used interchangeably with Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Democratic Socialism, which is still rather common in the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination United States, especially since Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Bernie Sanders' rise in popularity. After World War 2, Social Democracy becomes its own identity and promoted a strong welfare state under a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination capitalist economy. Social Democracies have been established in Europe and other types of the world as follows: Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination India since the establishment of the DPSP, the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Republic of France during the 1930's before Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination German Occupation, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Australia ever since WWII, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Sri Lanka since the early 1940's, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination the French Republic after the fall of Nazi France, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland.

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The Seeheimer Kreis (Seeheim Circle) is a major, economically somewhat more right-leaning faction within the SPD. Its origins can be traced back to the "canal workers", a relatively loose, informal, yet also influental group of SPD delegates that came into existence during the early 50s. Starting in the 60s, the group would start to hold its first annual formal meetings, a tradition that still lasts to this day. In the meantime, the group would become known as the "Seeheimer Kreis" for the first time in its history, and also grow more cohesive. Its namesake lies in a small|town in southwestern Germany, which was where the canal workers held most of their aforementioned meetings.

Members of the Seeheimer Kreis are known to pride themselves on their pragmatism and "anti-dogmatism". Some observers also refer to the party as the SPD's right-wing or conservative wing. Furthermore, they were also one of the most ardent supporters of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Gerhard Schröder's welfare reforms. While they supported raising the minimum wage to 12 euros per hour, they also hold some economically right-leaning stances, such as aiming to reduce national debt before fleshing out the social security system.

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The Social Democratic Party had its roots in Reformist Marxism and was founded 1888 by Victor Adler as Social Democratic Workers Party of Austria. After 1918 Otto Bauer invented Austromarxism and the party followed a more communist direction as Karl Renner supported Rosa Luxemburg and wanted Austria to join the USSR. Between 1918 and 1933 the party only was part of one government but became popular in Vienna were the SPÖ seized power (Red Vienna). In 1923 the SPÖ founded the paramilitary Republican Protection League (Republikanischer Schutzbund) and the party radicalized in the following years. After the Civil war 1933 the SPÖ was forbidden and was in resistance against Austrofascism and Nazism (until 1945).

After 1945 Karl Renner reinvented the party as Socialist Party of Austria and created the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationSozialpartnerschaft together with the ÖVP to prevent any civil wars in the future. In the 1970s the party gained absolute power in government under Bruno Kreisky. In the 1990s and early 2000s the SPÖ followed the Third Way direction under Franz Vranitzky (who renamed the party into Social Democratic Party of Austria), Victor Klima and Alfred Gusenbauer. Since the late 2000s the party is following a more left direction as Heinz Fischer called Fidel Castro one of the greatest politicians of the 20th and 21st century and Andreas Schieder said that the PKK is not a terrorist group. The only exception is Hans-Peter Doskozil in Burgenland who follows a more nationalistic and welfare chauvenist direction.

The party is very strong in Vienna; from 1918 to 1933 and since 1945 all mayors of Vienna were SPÖ-members.

In 2023 the dispute of the 3 wings of the party, the left-liberal wing under Pamela Rendi-Wagner, theconservative wing under Hans-Peter Doskozil and the marxist wing under Andreas Babler, escalated and all 3 are fighting for the leadership of the party.

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The Swedish Social Democratic Party had its roots in Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Reformist Marxism, like most social democratic parties in Europe. They were in and out of governments from 1917 to 1936, when they stayed in governance for just under 40 years, sometimes with a coalition sometimes with a genuine majority. The Swedish Social Democratic Party implemented a robust social safety net and nationalized several important industries, such as establishing a state-owned company for certain types of alcohol! However, the Swedish Social Democrats long term in office would come to an end in 1991 when Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Carl Bildt was elected PM after severe political controversy emerged over the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Rudolf-Meidner plan which saw vast privatisations of state industries and monopiles, a repeal of the Rudolf-Meidner plan and has been a shadow over the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination SAP ever since.

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PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers Party) was first formed in 1879 and had been in government longer than any Spanish political party. It is the ruling party of Spain and of course, is very popular.

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The UK Labour Party was first formed on the 27th of February 1900 by the Labour Representation Committee (a pressure group that focused on workers' rights) and was initially Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination socialist and the abolition of private property was included in the party's platform but by the 1940s, in accordance with many other Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination "socialist" political parties in Europe, the abolishment of private property was dropped from their party platform and they swiftly won elections after this. Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Clement Atlee was elected prime minister in 1945, just three years later his party created the NHS and oversaw mass nationalizations and the formation of a comprehensive welfare state.

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Despite a social democratic party never being elected federally as the largest party and only once elected to federal official, social democracy has had a large influence on Canadian politics and is the main ideology of the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination New Democratic Party, and has played a massive role in provincial and local politics.

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In the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination United States, Social Democracy exists in the form of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Sandersism. Sandersism first came around as an ideology in 1972 when Bernie Sanders ran for senator of Vermont under the Liberty Union Party, but lost the vote. He ran for Governor of Vermont as well in the same year but also lost. Bernie Sanders did later become senator of Vermont in 2006 and still has been the senator of Vermont to this day, but is now under the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Vermont Progressive Party (but somewhat independent) rather than the Liberty Union. Though he is still part of the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Senate Democrat Caucaus and runs for president as a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Democrat. His runs for president in 2016 and 2020 put the term 'democratic socialism' into mainstream American political discourse, although his economic policies which more resemble that of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Social Democracy, with him heavily citing the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Nordic Model as an inspiration, makes his classification as a democratic socialist debatable but makes him more of a social democrat.

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Vermontese Progressivism is based off of the beliefs of the regional Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Vermont Progressive Party, a left-wing political party active in the U.S. State of Vermont. On social issues it advocates for social justice, the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination end of systemic racism, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination gender equality, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination LGBT rights, disabled rights, easier immigration, and an open and inclusive society. As for economics, it supports left-wing policies such as progressive taxation, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination universal healthcare, free education, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination housing for all, and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination small, local cooperatives as opposed to multinational corporations. It also supports Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination combatting climate change, including a transition to renewable energy. As for foreign policy, it supports diplomacy and pacifism, and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination opposes interventionism.

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The Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Australian Labor Party was historically a social democratic party, and claims to still be. However, since 1983 and the election of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Bob Hawke, they have been largely more Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Third Way. Despite this, they still have some social democratic individuals. There was also a Social Democratic party founded in 1980 that lasted 3 years and didn't get any seats.

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Beliefs and Views

Social Democracy believes in a liberal democratic framework, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Liberal democracy is a form of system operating under the civic principles of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination classical liberalism. But however, Social Democratic economics are incredibly different from classical liberalism.

Social Democracy is a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination center-left ideology that believes in a mixed economy with a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination welfare state funded by progressive taxation. They believe in re-distributing wealth via taxes to make Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination capitalism more humane. However Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination many social democrats also consider it within their goal to abolish capitalism entirely. And Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination many others, while not being as ideological as Bernstein's followers, would consider being called a liberal or a capitalist as abhorrent.

While, not being Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Marxist (well Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination mostly not anyway), social democrats still subscribe to Karl Marx's scientific socialism, which calls for an analysis of historical events as class conflict and material desires being unfulfilled. Scientific socialism also calls for a mass workers' movement, opposition to an Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationintellectual and most definitely an Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination aristocratic movement. This Scientific socialism is the main differentiation between a left-wing liberal and a social democrat. Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationSocial Liberalism came from an intellectual elite while social democracy comes from unions, workers, and farmers.

They subscribe to the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Liberal interpretation of human rights. That being the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Social Democrats alter the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Liberal interpretation of 'human rights' to include equality, justice, and solidarity.

To make it simpler, here are the 4 principles of Social Democracy.

Freedom

Freedom Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination which means, to social democrats, that every individual should be able to decide how they should live, and that the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination state and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination society should not interfere arbitrarily such as financial security, education and social opportunities.

Equality

This is mainly connecting to Social Democracy's beliefs and views in Social Justice, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Social Equality, taxation, and welfare.

Social Democracies tend to support a universalist welfare. Instead of only subsidizing private services or giving them to the needy, the provisions are available for everyone. The supported policies are universal childcare, care for the elderly, education, healthcare and workers' compensation. This is due to social democrat's belief that 1) so called "means testing" is in fact more expensive than universal welfare. 2) Benefit scroungers are so rare that they do not even matter to be considered on the political scale.

Justice

Justice means, to social democrats, that in the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination eyes of the law every citizen is equal, regardless of race, gender, gender/sexual identity and wealth. However, justice also means that everyone is given equal opportunity to succeed and make their own fortune and way in life often requiring state intervention to deal with issues of crime, low education, low wages and high prices for basic necessities.

Solidarity

Solidarity means everyone, society, being willing to help one another. Social democrats view solidarity as the glue that holds society together. Solidarity means that Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination sectoral bargaining is implemented in at least the most crucial industries and public services, such as healthcare, transportation and education, in order to prevent strikes in those institutions from disrupting the rest of society. But likewise, society will pay these essential workers high wages to ensure they can make ends meet.

Personality

Social Democracy is generally portrayed as being quite caretaking of other people, even if they may not like it. They are occasionally mistaken for Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Democratic Socialism, which they usually don't like, but they'll often proudly call themself a democratic socialist in Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination The United States. He will get very mad at Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Left Communism and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Marxism–Leninism whenever they call him a "Social Fascist".

How to Draw

Flag of Social Democracy
  1. Draw a ball
  2. Color the ball red
  3. Draw a white rose on the ball, extending from the bottom to the upper-middle
  4. Add the eyes

You're finished!

Color Name HEX RGB
Red #E10600 225, 6, 0
White #FFFFFF 255, 255, 255


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For overlapping political theory see:

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Socialism, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Social Liberalism, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Keynesian School, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Liberalism, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Liberal Socialism,
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Regulationism, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Democratic Socialism, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Third Way Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Reformist Marxism, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Progressivism, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Welfarism, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Reformism

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Notes

  1. ↑ Some capitalist thinkers like Hayek embraced basic social democratic policies (for instance, the national health insurance) to preserve an otherwise free-market system with a limited government.
  2. ↑ Whitlam was pro-free trade and anti-protectionist.
  3. ↑ Lee Jae-myung was once a member of the site. Lee has also expressed some admiration for South Korea’s past military dictators, especially Park Chung-hee and Choo Doo-hwqn.
  4. ↑ "There are difficult questions about the precise standard which should thus be assured... but there can be no doubt that some minimum of food, shelter, and clothing, sufficient to preserve health and the capacity to work, can be assured to everybody." - Hayek.
  5. ↑ Ernst Thälmann and the Communist Party of Germany targeted Social Democrat politicians instead because they thought Nazis coming to power would accelerate the collapse of capitalism, which at the time seemed preferable to the slow and reformist nature of moderate Marxists in the SDP

Citations

  1. ↑ "Jagmeet Singh's support for Emergencies Act shows he's no Tommy Douglas", Macdonaldlaurier.ca
  2. ↑ "Trump conte salvini elezioni Italia", repubblica.it (in Italian). 5 September 2022.
  3. ↑ [1], ilfattoquotidiano.it (in Italian).
  4. ↑ "Scholz irks comrades at home and abroad", Reuters.
  5. ↑ [2], Youtube.com
  6. ↑ "Peter Murrell, Nicola Sturgeon's husband, arrested over SNP funding investigation", The Guardian. 5 April 2023.
  7. ↑ "MI5 file links former SNP leader to a Nazi plan", Scotsman.
  8. ↑ "How the Left enabled Fascism", The New Statesman. October 2018.

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