Concept
Social democracy
Overview
political ideology
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In the course of events it had, however, changed, together with the class that it represented. The peculiar character of the Social Democracy is summed up in this: that democratic-republican institutions are demanded as the means, not to remove the two extremes—Capital and Wage-slavery—, but in order to weaken their antagonism and transform them into a harmonious whole. However different the methods may be that are…
Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
States what Social democracy is; the author is tied to Social democracy in the knowledge graph.
We have had occasion to refer in passing to the distinction between democracy as a social idea and political democracy as a system of government. The two are, of course, connected. The idea remains barren and empty save as it is incarnated in human relationships. Yet in discussion they must be distinguished.
John Dewey, The public and its problems
Close in meaning to Social democracy; the term itself is not named.
The United States and the latest French republic are striking examples, and good old Switzerland has contributed its share to illustrate this point. That a democratic republic is not necessary for this fraternal bond between stock exchange and government is proved by England and last, not least, Germany, where it is doubtful whether Bismarck or Bleichroeder was more favored by the introduction of universal…
Friedrich Engels, The origin of the family, private property, and the state
The author is tied to Social democracy in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed Social democracy
- Netherlands
- Thomas Paine
- Alexander Bogdanov
- Philipp Mainländer
- Georges Sorel
- Alexandre Kojève
- Nicos Poulantzas
- Mircea Florian (philosopher)
- Ernest Mandel
Related ideas
- Simon & Schuster
- Manchester University Press
- Globe Pequot Publishing Group
- Ethnicity
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Fascism
- BBC News
- Polity (publisher)
- Neo-Kantianism
- Free market
- Anarchism
- Harvard University Press
- Princeton University Press
- Gross domestic product
- German Empire
- CQ Press
- Public service
- Hedonism
- Deregulation
- Marxists Internet Archive
- Private property
- Joseph Stalin
- Joseph Schumpeter
- National Health Service
Opposing perspectives
- Francis Fukuyama
- Free market
- Laissez-faire
- New Deal
- Welfare state
- October Revolution
- Rule of law
- Socialism
- Capitalist mode of production
- Representative democracy
- Economic system
- Red fascism
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Anthony Crosland
- August Bebel
- Cooperative
- Democratic socialism
- Louis Blanc
- Monetarism
- New York (magazine)
- Polity (publisher)
- Proletarian internationalism
- Public service
- Social Democratic Federation
- Socialist economics
- State-owned enterprise
- Wilhelm Liebknecht
- General German Workers' Association
- Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany
- Italian economic miracle
- Gradualism
- Post-capitalism
- Privately held company
- Richard T. Ely
- Human development (economics)
- State socialism
- The Future of Socialism