Social Democracy

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Social Democracy, often clipped to SocDem (or SuccDem by ideologies that disagree with it), is an economically center-left, culturally left-wing, and civically moderate, though usually leaning libertarian, ideology. Despite often being called a "File:Soc.png socialist" by right-wing ideologies, Social Democracy is often excluded from leftist circles as well due to their support for reforming capitalism rather than abolishing it. Social Democracy finds that welfare programs and business regulations, when achieved through reform rather than revolution, can lead to higher prosperity for the proletariat than systems of unregulated capitalism or collectivist socialism.

History

Social Democracies have been established in Europe and other types of the world as follows: India since the establishment of the DPSP, the French Republic during the 1930's before German Occupation, Australia ever since WWII, Sri Lanka since the early 1940's, the French Republic after the fall of Vichy France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Greenland.

Its debatable on whether the United Kingdom or the United States also qualify as Social Democracies given the previous definition of a social democracy (capitalist countries with democratically enacted regulations and welfare states).

New Zealand

New Zealand established a Social Democratic welfare state in the 1930's, which still partially remains today. This is despite undergoing significant fiscal reforms in the 1980's under the Rogernomics system, akin to Fiscal Conservatism.

Foundations

Social Democracy's foundations are based on 3 things, freedom, justice, and solidarity.

Freedom- Freedom as in property in one’s own person, Freedom of ‘the will to think’ is a fundamental in society by means of political rights and democratic rights, and economic rights.

Justice- The equal right to the large and total system of equal basic liberties compatible with a similar system of liberty for all.

Solidarity- Everyone willing to help each other.

Personality

Social Democracy is generally portrayed as being quite care-taking of other people, even if they may not like it. They are occasionally mistaken for Democratic Socialism.

How to Draw

Flag of Social Democracy

Drawing Social Democracy requires a few steps:

  1. Draw a ball
  2. Color the ball with red
  3. Draw a white rose on the bottom of the ball
  4. Add the eyes, and you're done!

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Relationships

Friends

  • Keynesianism - We make the government spend... together
  • Capitalism - You are good at making the economy grow so there is a lot of resources.
  • File:Soc.png Socialism - You are good at ensuring everyone has the right to what they deserve like Healthcare, Housing and so much more.
  • Left-Wing Populism - We work great during elections, and we both care about the common people.
  • Democratic Socialism - My more leftist sibling.
  • Kemalism - My Turkish nationalistic variant. He's based.

Frenemies

Enemies

Further Information

For overlapping political theory see:

File:Soc.png Socialism, Social Liberalism, Keynesianism, Liberalism, Liberal Socialism, Regulationism,
Democratic Socialism, Third Way, Bernsteinism

Literature

Wikipedia

Videos

Online Communities

Gallery

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