If the US could stop fearing communist ghosts and try to understand how different it is from social democracy, then it may have some hope of improving its society.
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What you call #neoliberalism is late stage #capitalism, you can't have non-neoliberal capitalism, and you can't have a #socialdemocracy either.
As long as this myth of non-neoliberal capitalism exists things will only get worse. And the pseudo left of reformers and pseudo-#socialists have a large responsibility in reproducing this myth.
#marxism as religion bankrupted
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...the failure of the Meidner plan. In the UK, we started to talk about "the forward march of labour halted".
Although we cannot turn the clock back, understanding what was and was not possible in those years should help social democrats forge a path ahead now.
https://jacobin.com/2017/08/sweden-social-democracy-meidner-plan-capital
jacobin.comRevisiting the Meidner PlanIn the 1970s, the Swedish labor movement developed a plan to gradually socialize ownership. What can we learn from it today?
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“If you look at the bigger picture, isn’t this growing fear of immigrants showing the lack of confidence of Western societies?”
Part, even if not all, of this "lack of confidence" in Sweden and other western societies can be traced to the impasse of social Democratic movements in the 1970s. In Sweden, this took the form of...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/opinion/sweden-migration-policy.html
The New York Times · Opinion | The Problem With Sweden Is Sweden
People are seeing Bernie and AOC attempt to rise up against billionaires and oligarchy and are now calling themselves socialists, and that is good, but Bernie and AOC are more social democrats rather than socialists. #BernieSanders #AOC #Socialism #SocialDemocracy
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Once again, yet another extremely common W for #SocialDemocracy.
Look at any measurement of societal success ever devised. Social democratic societies always crowd the top spots.
EU ought to export Social Democracy. Not by force, but through hearts and minds.
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Finland ranked happiest countr...
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“We need more social budgets than ever, more social rights, more social welfare, more public housing policy, more – and better – employment. The other approach is to fall into the dialogue of the far right, and there the far right wins.” https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/10/if-you-fall-into-the-dialogue-of-the-far-right-the-far-right-wins-spains-deputy-pm-on-the-need-for-workers-rights #Spain #socialdemocracy #workersrights
The Guardian · ‘If you fall into the dialogue of the far right, the far right wins’: Spain’s deputy PM on the need for workers’ rights
#Communism seems like a good idea until you realise it requires an autocratic vanguard.
Likewise #Anarchism seems like a good idea until you discover communal factions which necessitate a social contract.
In between is #SocialDemocracy. That also seems like a good idea until you find out that half of the public are hypnotised by the propaganda of special interests.
Good arguments made from each side. The left care more about public interest, but that is also why we squirm more over policy.
#Neoliberalism destroyed the US and traumatized the #EU. But that era is finally over. Now let's make sure #egalitarian #keynesianism wins over fascism once again. This is an opportunity. 
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@Philipnschofield
Full on #corporate #capitalism with little to no safeguards eventually ends up on the far right of the political divide into unashamed #oligarchic #fascism and #tyranny.
We have #Reagan-Thatcher sponsored #ChicagoSchool of #Economics’ made to order theory of #neoliberalism to thank for it. As well as weak democratic (not to say corrupt) govts, who probably saw the excesses of the economic system but chose not to do a damned thing about it due to the benefits they derived.
I’m afraid it will take more than an #election-eviction of right-wing govts to set us back on the #SocialDemocracy path. #War is coming my friend unless someone very powerful pulls a rabbit out of a hat, and soon.
I’m normally a very optimistic guy, but I cannot ignore the obvious. 
Attention Democratic Socialists, Social Democrats, and all other reformist socialists:
Capitalists will not give up their power voluntarily. Capitalism will not be abolished peacefully. The working class must remove capitalists from power and abolished capitalism by force.
Reminded me to post about yet another extremely common #SocialDemocracy W:
Top scores in any one or even few of these indices could well be explained as flukes.
But when practically _every single measure of societal success ever devised_ gives similarish results...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3gczycymg3cd7u5ovmtyu7xi/post/3ljnkquaa7s26
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Belgian unions meeting the new government with a wave of strikes might be inconvenient, but it sure beats having DOGE eat your country unopposed.
Join a union today!
Any scholars of #LaborHistory or #SocialChange #historians who care to share their perspectives on society-wide #GeneralStrikes that augured significant advances in #labor political power and advanced reforms or #SocialDemocracy ? It seems each case and country/epoch could be quite unique, but perhaps there are shared aspects (for successful actions, as well as for flops). I'm wondering if there will be signs or necessary conditions to watch for here in the USA.
Yet another extremely common W for the Nordic #SocialDemocracy. This time the best countries for raising kids. Any one of these measurements could be dismissed as a fluke. But when practically every measurement of societal success so far devised shows similarish results…
My main quibble with articles like this is the emphasis on #SocialDemocracy as a bulwark against rising #fascism. The claim has some utility but the #socialist left has always had better answers to the #WorkingClass insecurity that #AfD & #Trump exploit.
"People aren't crazy, people aren't stupid, they understand that this is an unjust world. That you can be filthy rich without working, and that you can work two jobs and still can't afford to find a home. That's the reality, for millions of people in the Western world, and if we don't fix that they'll never vote for us again."
#FransTimmermans, Leader of Dutch Labour party, 2025
https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/02/122-how-europe-can-survive-trump-frans-timmermans/
Hey NZ Labour (and US Democrats), are you taking notes?
Alastair Campbell · 122. How Europe can survive Trump (Frans Timmermans)Are Trump and Putin carving up the world? How should the EU adapt to this new world? What imagination is needed on the political left? TRIP Plus: Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, receive our exclusive newsletter, enjoy ad-free listening to both TRIP and Leading, benefit from discount […]