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Everything regarding social democracy as a political movement.

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"Social democracy is a political, social and economic philosophy within socialism. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a liberal-democratic polity and a capitalist-oriented mixed economy."

Social democracy is often confused with democratic socialism which is it's own thing.

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If you had to prioritize one major policy reform to start moving the U.S. toward a social democratic model, what would it be and why? (lemmy.world)

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[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Policy follows deeper social power structures, not the other way around. Moving the US to a social democratic model requires the difficult work if ground-up organizing principled anticapitalist formations. Social democracy has always been a capitalist attempt to head off socialist power, to coopt the workers' organizations into legalized structures that can be controlled by a capitalist-owned state. If you want social democracy, the way is to apparently organize with a communist party in a movement that fails to innoculate itself against capitalist cooption.

So, it is actually the antithesis of waiting for a policy change or announcing a desire for one. If you simply say, "this is a good policy for us workers", the ruling class will say, "you and what army?" and they will correctly call your bluff just like always. They have to be unable to call your bluff because you straight-up are not bluffing.