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29 - Crises and Futures of Social Democracy

from Part II - Transversal Perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2022

By
Göran Therborn
Edited by
Marcel van der Linden
Marcel van der Linden
Affiliation:
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
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Summary

The social democratic movement and the dream of socialism have a long history, arising out of and together with industrial capitalism, as a movement of resistance and as a vision of another, just and more equal society. The structural foundation of their current crisis is the decline of industrial capitalism in the richest part of the world and its stalling at a smaller social scale than its European development. However, the mutation of capitalism into financial and digital does not do away with the tensions and conflicts between capital and labour.

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The Cambridge History of Socialism , pp. 687 - 710
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Benedetto, Giacomo, Hix, Simon, and Mastrorocco, Nicola, ‘The rise and fall of social democracy, 1918–2017’, American Political Science Review 114, 3 (2020), pp. 928–39.Google Scholar
Eley, Geoff, Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850–2000 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kitschelt, Herbert, The Transformation of European Social Democracy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Merkel, Wolfgang, et al., Social Democracy in Power: The Capacity to Reform (Abingdon: Routledge, 2008).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Piketty, Thomas, Capital and Ideology, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2020).Google Scholar
Sassoon, Donald, One Hundred Years of Socialism (London: I. B. Tauris, 1996).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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