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u/Qwill2 · 1 pointr/SocialDemocracy

FWIW: Thomas Meyer has a go at distinguishing between liberal, libertarian and social democracy:

> The present theoretical sketch also attempts to conceptualize social democracy as one of the key components of political science by imbedding it in a more encompassing theory of democracy. In the latter, the notion of social democracy has clear affinities to and contrasts with both liberal and libertarian democracy. Following well-established intellectual traditions, we shall mean by liberal democracy a pluralistic regime that respects human rights and abides by the rule of law. It is legally and conceptually flexible enough to accomodate both subcategories libertarian and social demoracy. The former restricts the scope of democracy and fundamental rights to the political sphere, and defines the self-regulating market and unregulated private property as the institutional counterparts of democracy in the economic and social sphere.

> Social democracy, by contrast, insists that democracy and its associatied charter of rights must be extended into the social and economic spheres as well. Specifically, the social order must meet higher standards of democracy by allowing for well-regulated participation, a legal claim to social security, a distribution of wealth and income that takes justice into account, and a democratic state, the regulative and distributive policies of which accord with all of these values.

> One could also distinguish liberal from social democracy by emphasizing the former's commitment to economic liberalism, as ordinary language usage suggests.

Two PDFs:

Basics of Social Democracy

Foundations of Social Democracy

u/Duggur · 1 pointr/SocialDemocracy

Apart from being a citizen in what is called a social democracy, I do have some knowledge on the term, however in effect limited mostly to theories regarding the Nordic model and how welfare capitalism is done in the Nordic countries. So not as much theory on social democracy in itself as a concept, but rather more empirically perhaps, on how social democracies incorporates these notions into welfare and work policies.

With that said, I believe looking into the Nordic model will give you some good insights into what exactly it is that social democracy entails, and it will surely give you some additional "meat to the bone" after reading the wiki article.

A good start, I believe, is Gøsta Esping-Andersen's The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (there are abridged versions available in various scholarly databases). I can also produce some key concepts from the book worth mentioning, if you like.

Perhaps if you could formulate more precicely what it is you're most interested in regarding social democracy, I could provide you with some more litterature or insights?

u/macdoogles · 2 pointsr/SocialDemocracy

I thought the documentary was great but it's very long and I think a lot of people don't catch the details. I also thought it was good to revive the video since I think it's informative and more people should check it out. This particular excerpt seemed relevant to social democracy.

The rest of the documentary is largely focused on Thomas Ferguson's book Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems and features quotes from Ferguson and Noam Chomsky quite heavily. Ferguson believes that you can predict government policy by following the financial backing of the various politicians. For example, it is argued that health care entered the US national debate in 2008 not necessarily because people wanted it but because various manufacturing industries were seeing their costs of labor go up and were feeling the pinch during the financial crisis and they in turn lobbied the politicians. At the end the documentary tries to make the case for both socialism and democracy.

u/Radioheadbro · 2 pointsr/SocialDemocracy

[One Hundred Years of Socialism]http://www.amazon.com/One-Hundred-Years-Socialism-Twentieth/dp/1565844866 is brick of a book but its well worth the effort of reading. It is perfect for understanding just how long ago we split off from our fellow travelers on the far-left. The book will make it more difficult to deal with those who enjoy branding us as "reds" though.

u/Caddywumpus · 3 pointsr/SocialDemocracy

I'm currently halfway through Occupy World Street: A Global Roadmap for Radical Economic and Political Reform by Ross Jackson that deals with this very topic.

Good read so far.

u/kludgeocracy · 1 pointr/SocialDemocracy

Social Democratic America by Lane Kenworthy was highly influential for me. He just released a new book called Social Democratic Capitalism which I have not yet read.

u/vsevolodovich · 1 pointr/SocialDemocracy

I consider Eduard Bernstein the father of social democracy (or at leas of the more socialist wing of it which I belong to).

His works may be hard to swallow at first, so I would recommend a great introduction to him called The Dilemma of Democratic Socialism: Eduard Bernstein's Challenge to Marx by Peter Gay. Unfortunately, I can't find it online, but it might be available in your local library.

u/Absobloodylootely · 2 pointsr/SocialDemocracy

We used this book alongside our intro-class at business school, and I keep using it for reference.

u/[deleted] · 1 pointr/SocialDemocracy

Well I think you ought to redact your edit again, because if you think anyone who believes the US is not a functioning democracy is a wanker, then you're talking to a wanker.

I think the issue is that people are not cross-reading or fully understanding the concept of intersectionality. As I have read "Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea", have Piketty on queue, and have read the PDFs in the sidebar, I doubt anyone here has read Che Guevara's Guerrilla Warfare or have listened to Ward Churchill's "Pacifism and Pathology in the American Left" or read his "On the Justice of Roosting Chickens".

The aggression is not a "speed bump", unless this speed bump takes you out of the commonly accepted limit of the atmosphere--after all, literally millions of dead bodies would create a rather large speed bump. If you got yourself a scale and measured our good versus our evil, there wouldn't be a chance of good landing on the bottom, not even if you sat on it.

If you picked up some literature that wasn't what you might deem a "circlejerk", i.e. if you read something you didn't necessarily agree with to begin with, you would realize that nonviolence in this case becomes a liability, not the hailed powerful weapon it has previously been used as. If you don't want to bother reading, just watch this episode of the Boondocks.