Social Democracy

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This is a political community dedicated to broad ideas of Sᴏᴄɪᴀʟ Dᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏ which is a political ideology that has several different variants. We welcome anyone to discuss and participate in this community

What is Social Democracy?

There are a number of variants, but we can provisionally define it as a political ideology which prescribes the use of democratic collective action to extend the principles of freedom and equality valued by democrats in the political sphere to the organization of the economy and society, chiefly by opposing the inequality and oppression created by laissez-faire capitalism.

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We live in a reality where Walmart employees beg for donations and people are afraid to go to the hospital (discuss.online)
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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/40375880

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Progressives land a big win in a Philadelphia House primary and hope it means more are on the way (apnews.com)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/politics/p/779802/progressives-land-a-big-win-in-a-philadelphia-house-primary-and-hope-it-means-more

It looked like progressive Chris Rabb had a mountain to climb to win the Democratic nomination for a congressional district in Philadelphia.

The mayor and the city’s Democratic Party had endorsed another candidate in this week’s primary. So had members of Pennsylvania’s delegation in the U.S. House. One Rabb rival was backed by millions of dollars. A second benefited from a get-out-the-vote operation run by the influential local building trades unions.

But Rabb finished 15 percentage points ahead of his closest competitor in Tuesday’s election, and the state representative is likely on his way to Washington because no Republican sought the GOP nomination.

Rabb was propelled by a constellation of progressive groups, charting a path to victory partly by assailing his own party as listening more to donors than voters. He credited a grassroots movement inspired by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, alarmed by Republican President Donald Trump and hungry for a government responsive to their needs.

“That was at the heart of why I was running and that is what I built my campaign around and that, I believe, is a chord we struck in this electorate that showed up and came out like gangbusters,” Rabb said in an interview with The Associated Press.

The progressive left counts Rabb’s success as one of its biggest victories of the year and the latest warning sign that Democratic voters see the party’s leadership as weak and feckless in countering Trump. Progressives are also running for House seats in New York, California and Michigan where they are challenging Democratic incumbents or aiming to take on vulnerable Republicans.

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AOC: You can’t ‘earn’ a billion dollars (www.usatoday.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to c/socialdemocracy@sh.itjust.works
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.radio/post/13292490

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Mamdani balanced the NYC budget (lemmy.zip)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/64207536

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Bernie has been dropping truth bombs for decades (discuss.online)
submitted 3 weeks ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to c/socialdemocracy@sh.itjust.works
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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/39255649

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Market Socialism Against Capitalism – 2026 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture | Perspectives Journal (perspectivesjournal.ca)
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Free eBook: What is Social Democracy? (www.palmecenter.se)
submitted 1 year ago by sith@lemmy.zip to c/socialdemocracy@sh.itjust.works
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Algorithmic governance and the Swedish model - Foundation for European Progressive Studies (feps-europe.eu)
submitted 2 years ago by sith@lemmy.zip to c/socialdemocracy@sh.itjust.works
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If you happen to be in Stockholm.

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Constructing “Social Europe” (www.phenomenalworld.org)
submitted 2 years ago by Swarming@sh.itjust.works to c/socialdemocracy@sh.itjust.works
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The answer to an anti-green backlash is to be redder (www.socialeurope.eu)
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Europe facing three threats to its future (www.socialeurope.eu)
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Social democracy resists and the far-right flops in Spain (blogs.lse.ac.uk)
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The Housing Boom Replaced Social Democracy. Now We Have Neither | Novara Media (novaramedia.com)
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The cost of freedom: When imperialist dictators are going to war, a security policy devoted to deterrence and defence capability is not conservative but social democratic (www.ips-journal.eu)
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Keir Starmer is threatening to leave our crises unchanged. So what social forces will he unleash? (www.theguardian.com)
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The new heart of Europe: As Pedro Sánchez fights for re-election, Spain’s fractured politics has become a harbinger of the continent’s future. (www.newstatesman.com)
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https://web.archive.org/web/20230718075007/https://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/2023/07/new-heart-europe

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Watch: Fran Drescher delivers fiery speech on SAG-AFTRA strike (youtu.be)
submitted 2 years ago by frankPodmore@slrpnk.net to c/socialdemocracy@sh.itjust.works
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A great statement of trade union and by extension social democratic values. In summary: the CEOs can't exist without labour. So, pay up!

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Europe's moral compass, lost at sea (www.socialeurope.eu)
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Amid nothing going right, Austrians lean far-left (www.ips-journal.eu)
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The centre left is on the up around the world. Here’s what Keir Starmer can learn from it (www.theguardian.com)
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Pay attention to Rachel Reeves: her economic thinking is a return to sanity (www.theguardian.com)
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Making democracy safe from capitalism (www.newstatesman.com)
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