Social Democracy

Social Democracy, often clipped to SocDem (or SuccDem by ideologies that disagree or despise it), is an economically centre-left ideology. It is usually culturally left, albeit not exclusively. It advocates for strong welfare programs, unionization, with the addition of vast  regulation to promote  social justice. It is often confused with 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 leftist circles as well due to their support for merely reforming  capitalism as an end-goal rather than abolishing it. Social Democracy finds that a lot of welfare programs and business regulations, when achieved through reform rather than revolution, can lead to higher prosperity for the proletariat, rather than systems of  unregulated capitalism or  socialism

[[File:ClassicalSocDem.png]] Transitional Social Democracy [[File:Bernst.png]]
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Transitional Social Democracy, also known as Classical Social Democracy, is a variant of social democracy that supports the eventual transition from a capitalist economy to a socialist economy, These views are held by reformist Marxists and other socialists who use social democracy as a realpolitik approach to achieving socialism in a liberal democracy.

[[File: EconProg.png]] Social Progressivism
Social Progressivism, also called Literal Social Progressivism is a centre-left, reformist ideology focused on helping minorities (racial, ethnic and sexual) escaping poverty while also protecting, what they see as, the rights of women (such as abortion). They plan to help these people escape poverty with Keynesian measures such as universal healthcare (with a focus on developing a cure for AIDS, transgender surgeries and making abortion easily accessible. They support affirmative action programs to help eradicate poverty in poor areas too.}}

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

[[File:Cball-Germany.png]] Germany [[File:GerSPD.png]]
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[[File:Cball-Sweden.png]] Sweden [[File:Nordmodel.png]]
"Main Article: Nordic Model" The Swedish Social Democratic Party had its roots in 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 Carl Bildt was elected PM after severe political controversy emerged over the  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  SAP ever since.

[[File:Cball-Norway.png]] Norway [[File:Nordmodel.png]]
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[[File:Cball-Denmark.png]] Denmark [[File:Nordmodel.png]]
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[[File:Cball-Finland.png]] Finland [[File:Nordmodel.png]][[File:Marin.png]]
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[[File:Cball-Iceland.png]] Iceland [[File:Nordmodel.png]]
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[[File:Cball-Russia.png]] Russia [[File:Gorb.png]]
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[[File:Cball-France.png]] France [[File:PS.png]]
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[[File:Cball-Portugal.png]] Portugal
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[[File:Cball-Spain.png]] Spain
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.

[[File:Socdem.png]] Social Democracy's birth in [[File:Cball-UK.png]] UK
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 socialist and the abolition of private property was included in the party's platform but by the 1940s, in accordance with many other  "socialist" political parties in Europe, the abolishment of private property was dropped from their party platform and they swiftly won elections after this. 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.

[[File:Cball-Canada.png]] Canada
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 New Democratic Party, and has played a massive role in provincial and local politics.

[[File:Cball-US.png]] The United States [[File:Sanders.png]][[File:AOC.png]]
The Congressional Progressive Caucus is the most left-leaning faction in the  Democratic Party. The founding CPC members were concerned about the economic hardship imposed by the deepening recession and the growing inequality brought about by the timidity of the Democratic Party response in the early 1990s. On January 3, 1995, at a standing room only news conference on Capitol Hill, they were the first group inside Congress to chart a comprehensive legislative alternative to U.S. Speaker Newt Gingrich and the Republican Contract with America. The CPC's ambitious agenda was framed as "The Progressive Promise: Fairness".

[[File:CBall-Mexico.png]] Mexico [[File:MORENA.png]]
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[[File:Cball-Guatemala.png]] Guatemala
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[[File:Cball-Brazil.png]] Brazil [[File:Kubitschek.png]][[File:Lula.png]]
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[[File:Cball-Chile.png]] Chile
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[[File:Chavismo.png]] Venezuela
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[[File:Argentina.png]] Argentina [[File:Kirch.png]]
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[[File:ROT.png]] Turkey [[File:LibleftKem.png]]
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[[File:Zio.png]] Israel [[File:Labzion.png]]
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[[File:Cball-Iran.png]] Iran [[File:Mosaddegh.png]]
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[[File:Cball-South Korea.png]] South Korea
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[[File:Cball-Japan.png]] Japan
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[[File:Thailand.png]] Thailand
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[[File:Cball-Malaysia.png]] Malaysia
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[[File:Cball-Australia.png]] Australia
The Australian Labor Party was historically a social democratic party, and claims to still be. However, since 1983 and the election of Bob Hawke, they have been largely more 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.

[[File:Cball-Newz.png]] New Zealand
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Beliefs and Views
Social Democracy believes in a liberal democratic framework, Liberal democracy is a form of system operating under the civic principles of  classical liberalism. But however, Social Democratic economics are incredibly different from classical liberalism.

Social Democracy is a center-left ideology that believes in a mixed economy with a  welfare state funded by progressive taxation. They believe in re-distributing wealth via taxes to make capitalism more humane. However many social democrats also consider it within their goal to abolish capitalism entirely. And 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 Marxist (well  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 intellectual and most definitely an aristocratic movement. This Scientific socialism is the main differentiation between a left-wing liberal and a social democrat. Social Liberalism came from an intellectual elite while social democracy comes from unions, workers, and farmers.

They subscribe to the Liberal interpretation of human rights. That being the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Social Democrats alter the 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 which means, to social democrats, that every individual should be able to decide how they should live, and that the  state and  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, 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 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 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 Democratic Socialism, which they usually don't like, but they'll often proudly call themself a democratic socialist in  The United States. He will get very mad at Left Communism and  Marxism–Leninism whenever they call him a "Social Fascist".

How to Draw
Socdem_flag.svg Drawing Social Democracy requires a few steps:


 * 1) Draw a ball.
 * 2) Color the ball with red.
 * 3) Draw a white rose on the bottom of the ball.
 * 4) Add the eyes, and you're done!

Further Information
For overlapping political theory see: Socialism, Social Liberalism,  Keynesianism,  Liberalism,  Liberal Socialism,   Regulationism,  Democratic Socialism,  Third Way,  Reformist Marxism,  Progressivism,  Welfarism,  Reformism

Literature

 * A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
 * Time for Socialism by Thomas Piketty
 * Overproduction and Crises by Johann Karl Rodbertus
 * Foundations of Social Democracy by Tombias Gambert
 * The Working Man's Programme by Ferdinand Lassalle
 * Social Democracy After the Cold War by Bryan Evans and Ingo Schmidt
 * Basics on Social Democracy by Thomas Kastning
 * SockDem's #1 Economic Fact Sheet™

Parties and Organizations

 * [[File:CBall-Mexico.png]] MORENA
 * [[File:Cball-Peru.png]] Partido Morado
 * Democratic Socialists of America
 * New Democratic Party (Canada)
 * Labour Party (United Kingdom)
 * Australian Labor Party
 * Socialist Party (France)
 * Party of European Socialists
 * Socialist International
 * Progressive Alliance

Wikipedia

 * Social Democracy
 * Welfare State
 * Economic Progressivism
 * Category: Social Democracy

Videos

 * What is Social Democracy? (with playlist) by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
 * Social Democracy vs. Social Liberalism Explained by Liberaven
 * Democratic Socialism Vs. Social Democracy by Secular Talk
 * How Denmark Invented Social Democracy by Kraut

Discussion

 * [[File:Reddit.png]] r/SocialDemocracy
 * [[File:Reddit.png]] r/SocialDemocracyUSA
 * [[File:Reddit.png]] r/GenZSocialDemocrats
 * [[File:Reddit.png]] r/socdemnetwork

Memes and Humor

 * [[File:Reddit.png]] r/SocDememes

Political Parties

 * [[File:Reddit.png]] r/Labour
 * [[File:Reddit.png]] r/LabourUK
 * [[File:Reddit.png]] r/ndp
 * [[File:Reddit.png]] LaborPartyofAustralia

Politicians

 * [[File:Reddit.png]] r/SandersForPresident
 * [[File:Reddit.png]] r/AOC
 * [[File:Reddit.png]] r/OurPresident
 * [[File:Reddit.png]] r/WayOfTheBern
 * [[File:Reddit.png]] r/NewDealAmerica

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