Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- Abbreviations
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Transforming State Power
- Part II Transversal Perspectives
- 26 Socialism and Colonialism
- 27 Socialism, Gender, and the Emancipation of Women
- 28 Socialism and Ecology
- 29 Crises and Futures of Social Democracy
- Index
- References
29 - Crises and Futures of Social Democracy
from Part II - Transversal Perspectives
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2022
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- Abbreviations
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Transforming State Power
- Part II Transversal Perspectives
- 26 Socialism and Colonialism
- 27 Socialism, Gender, and the Emancipation of Women
- 28 Socialism and Ecology
- 29 Crises and Futures of Social Democracy
- Index
- References
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 - 710Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint 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