Social Democracy

The post-Second World War

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The post-Second World War simple system of social democracy and organized labour has fragmented massively, but just because people aren’t organized in workplace trade unions doesn’t mean they aren’t in associations with other people – work-based, place-based, culture-based, sport-based, faith-based – there’s a bit of an old rainbow coalition argument. Duncan Green

Scholars have been arguing

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Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy. I doubt it myself. I think what Gorbachev didn’t quite understand, until it was too late, is that his efforts at change unleashed new, certrifical forces he hadn’t counted on. He opened the … Read more

Rosa Luxemburg was –

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Rosa Luxemburg was – still is for me – a great personal and intellectual heroine. Her analysis of Leninism and capitalism and social democracy are all worth reading. I wouldn’t consider anyone truly politically literate if they hadn’t given her work at least some study. Christopher Hitchens

The peasants have seen

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The peasants have seen the future – Greece and France – and concluded that it does not work. Hence their opposition to Obama’s proudly transformational New Foundation agenda. Their logic is impeccable: Only the most blinkered intellectual could be attempting to introduce social democracy to America precisely when the world’s foremost exemplar of that model … Read more

We conceive the function

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We conceive the function of Tribune to be the expression in popular form, and to as large a public as possible, of the views of the Left and Marxist wing of social democracy in this country. Its policy must be that of those who believe that the present leadership of the Labour Party is not … Read more

I began to study

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I began to study again, and now for the first time really achieved an understanding of the content of the Jew Karl Marx’s life effort. Only now did his Capital become really intelligible to me, and also the struggle of the Social Democracy against the national economy, which aims only to prepare the ground for … Read more

A community is democratic

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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
A. Philip Randolph