Social Democracy: Difference between revisions

*[[File:Cball-Australia.png]] [[Liberal Conservatism|Australia]]

*[[File:Cball-UK.png]] [[One-Nation Conservatism|Postwar Britain]]

'''Social Democracy''', often clipped to '''SocDem''' (or [[File:Succdem.png]] '''SuccDem''' by ideologies that disagree with it), is an economically centre-left ideology. It is usually [[File:Prgess.png]] [[:Category:Culturally Left|culturally left]], [[File:Patcon.png]] [[Paternalistic Conservatism|albeit not]] [[Welfare Chauvinism|exclusively]] [[File:WelfChauvin.png]]. It advocates for [[File:Welf.png]] [[Welfarism|strong welfare programs]], unionization, with the addition of vast [[File:Regulationism.png]] [[Regulationism|regulation]]. It is often confused with [[File:Dsa.png]] [[Democratic Socialism]], or sometimes socialism in general. Despite often being called a "[[File:Soc.png]] [[Socialism|socialist]]" by right-wing ideologies, Social Democracy is often excluded from [[File:Leftunity.png]] [[:Category:Socialists|leftist]] circles as well due to their support for reforming [[File:Cap.png]] [[capitalism]] rather than abolishing it. Social Democracy finds that a lot of welfare programs and business regulations, when achieved through [[File:Left Reformism.png]] [[Reformism#Left Reformism|reform]] rather than revolution, can lead to higher prosperity for the proletariat, rather than systems of [[File:Lfree.png]] [[Capitalism#Laissez-Faire Capitalism|unregulated capitalism]] or [[File:Soc-h.png]] [[socialism]].

==History==