Why Social Democracy Isn’t Good Enough
One of the major stumbling blocks for new lefties is getting stuck in the “why can’t we just have social democracy?” phase. On the surface, the Nordic Model looks pretty good – social safety nets, great public services, better workers’ rights…so what’s the job? Let’s utter about social democracy’s critical failure, and why socialism is the better option.
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Citations and Further Reading:
How capitalism robs the Global southward
Social Democracy
https://jacobin.com/2018/08/democratic-socialism-social-democracy-nordic-countries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godesberg_Program
https://books.google.com/books?id=_00SKFEabywC&printsec=frontcover
https://jacobin.com/2018/09/elizabeth-warren-accountable-capitalism-stakeholder
https://jacobin.com/2017/11/german-social-democratic-party-2d-international-culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy
https://jacobin.com/2018/07/democratic-socialism-bernie-sanders-social-democracy-alexandria-ocasio-cortez
https://jacobin.com/2016/06/social-democracy-polanyi-great-transformation-welfare-province
https://jacobin.com/2017/08/democratic-socialism-judis-new-republic-social-democracy-capitalism
https://jacobin.com/2018/07/socialism-democrats-alexandria-ocasio-cortez
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model
H&M
https://www.renewablematter.eu/articles/article/unsustainable-fashion-h-and-m-is-being-sued-for-greenwashing
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/21-workers-die-in-fire-at-h-m-factory-1914292.html
https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/hm-fails-to-make-fire-and-building-safety-repairs-in-bangladesh/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-workers-garment-abuse-idUSKCN1M41GR
The involuntary/automatic alliance of the province with capitalists
http://acdc2007.free.fr/block420.pdf
Capital strikes
https://jacobin.com/2016/02/gude-third-way-clinton-new-deal-reagan-democratic-party
François Mitterand and the austerity turn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Mitterrand#First_term:_1981%E2%80%931988
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2017/10/french-lessons-what-corbyn-can-learn-mitterrands-mistakes
https://jacobin.com/2015/08/francois-mitterrand-socialist-party-common-programme-communist-pcf-1981-elections-austerity/
The decline of Swedish social democracy
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2016/12/21/sweden-heads-the-best-countries-for-business-for-2017/?sh=3fc8dce57ecd
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii113/articles/goran-therborn-twilight-of-swedish-social-democracy
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