#socialdemocracy — Public Fediverse posts

I never understood the cult of John Smith, who died 32 years ago.

He was decent & honest, a welcome contrast to most at the top of politics. But he was a cautious, small-c conservative with no inclination to reverse the neoliberalism which had already wrecked millions of lives.

Smith's legacy has the advantage of an early death: his promise was never tested. But I see nothing in his politics to justify hope that he would have restored the #socialdemocracy that Labour abandoned in 1976.

#ukpol

Beating Capitalism: 16-Hour Workweek, AI for People & Medicare for All Explained

Capitalism is failing working people. Explore solutions like job guarantees, public AI, and universal healthcare to build a fair economy.

Beating Capitalism: 16-Hour Workweek, AI for People & Medicare for All Explained

Capitalism is failing working people. Explore solutions like job guarantees, public AI, and universal healthcare to build a fair economy.

Beating Capitalism: 16-Hour Workweek, AI for People & Medicare for All Explained

Capitalism is failing working people. Explore solutions like job guarantees, public AI, and universal healthcare to build a fair economy.

Beating Capitalism: 16-Hour Workweek, AI for People & Medicare for All Explained

Capitalism is failing working people. Explore solutions like job guarantees, public AI, and universal healthcare to build a fair economy.

Beating Capitalism: 16-Hour Workweek, AI for People & Medicare for All Explained

Capitalism is failing working people. Explore solutions like job guarantees, public AI, and universal healthcare to build a fair economy.

Doug Cameron’s questions are the ones I have been asking myself (and the Party — though there were no answer from them) for two years or more. It’s incomprehensible to me why a supposedly left-wing Parliamentary Caucus with a whopping majority, is so… well, center-right. And that was why I cancelled my Party membership this year.

“…Cameron’s criticism does highlight one of the defining features of the Albanese government. Labor’s historically activist wing has arguably never held so much power to shape the country; a prime minister ensconced in the Lodge, surrounded by a praetorian guard of factional allies and a majority left caucus. Labor’s own constitution describes it as a democratic socialist party. So why is it so centrist?”

Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/04/australia-labor-party-left-centrists-albanese-leadership

#AusPol #Labor #SocialDemocracy #TaxReformNow #EatTheRich #Antifa #EndFossilFuelUseNow

Guys.

We hate #America.

Now, before you lose your heads, it's not personal.

We don’t hate #Americans—just the system. We feel for Americans, who’ve been misled.

You don’t live in a #democracy; you live in a #kleptocracy that exploits it. Nothing is free, and freedom comes at a growing cost.

Every fight leaves you with less.

Your battle isn’t with the world—it’s with your own way of life.

The answer? #SocialDemocracy—you make the rules.

Try it, you might like it.
#US #USA

#socialdemocracy

Efficiency and morality aren't necessarily at odds

https://piefed.social/c/political_memes/p/2012774/efficiency-and-morality-aren-t-necessarily-at-odds

Efficiency and morality aren't necessarily at odds

Efficiency and morality aren't necessarily at odds

Efficiency and morality aren't necessarily at odds

https://piefed.social/c/political_memes/p/2012774/efficiency-and-morality-aren-t-necessarily-at-odds

Efficiency and morality aren't necessarily at odds

https://piefed.social/c/political_memes/p/2012774/efficiency-and-morality-aren-t-necessarily-at-odds

BTW some among you might be interested in this summary of #collective #labour agreement regulating Finnish #university jobs. So I hope prof. Jung doesn't mind if I copy it below too! #unions #AcademicWork #WorkLifeBalance #HigherEducation #activism #SocialDemocracy www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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This is a headline which perhaps marks the start of a shift away from populous representation (aka #fascist) in western democracies. I sincerely hope so.

“Victor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungary election.”

I’m also glad that #Orban has not contested the preliminary results of the elelection (unlike #tRump is very much likely to do in November), ans I congratulate the #Hungarian people on their win for the #EU and #SocialDemocracy.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-13/victor-orban-concedes-defeat-in-hungary-election/106557060

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5baPn6SAQA

#US #USA #USPol #USPoli #USPolitics #America #Propaganda #Capitalism #Socialism #SocialDemocracy #LandOfTheFree #Freedom #Liberty #Education #Brainwashed #Colonialism #Healthcare #Childcare #ParentalLeave #ImperialOverstretch #CriticalThinking #Cults #MindControl #Gerrymandering #FPTP #TwoPartySystem #RankedChoice #RankedChoiceVoting #PledgeOfAllegiance #QuestionAuthority #ChristianNationalism #AmericanExceptionalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5baPn6SAQA

#US #USA #USPol #USPoli #USPolitics #America #Propaganda #Capitalism #Socialism #SocialDemocracy #LandOfTheFree #Freedom #Liberty #Education #Brainwashed #Colonialism #Healthcare #Childcare #ParentalLeave #ImperialOverstretch #CriticalThinking #Cults #MindControl #Gerrymandering #FPTP #TwoPartySystem #RankedChoice #RankedChoiceVoting #PledgeOfAllegiance #QuestionAuthority #ChristianNationalism #AmericanExceptionalism

Dear world,

Stop acting the bollox by voting for centre parties.
They a full of shit and are obligated by their very nature to appease everyone so in the end, nothing gets done.

If you truly want to live a life where the essential things are covered like health care, child care, universal basic income, and a social environment where people are not judgemental, vote #socialdemocracy. Find a local party or organisation that believes in social democracy and join them.

The left will set you free.

1/8 🧵
While the headlines often focus on the friction of politics, there is a "Red Thread" of stability running through Europe right now. In 2026, Social Democratic leaders are proving that you can balance a strong economy with a deep commitment to social justice.
Here is how the achievements of these leaders have placed the EU in such a strong position. 🇪🇺🌹
#SocialDemocracy #Europe2026 #ProgressivePolitics

Harry's Last Stand

“Are You Having It or Not?”
In the Shadows of the Welfare State
JM Smith

"On her first day in Britain, Friede encounters a country still shaped by war, scarcity, and the uneasy beginnings of something new, a social democratic Britain.
Before you is another chapter from The Green & Pleasant Land, which Harry Leslie Smith was working on at the time of his death."

https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/are-you-having-it-or-not?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#HarrysLastStand #harryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #SocialDemocracy

‘for every percentage point increase in the Gini coefficient of income inequality there was a roughly identical increase in support for far-right parties. Measures introduced by mainstream parties in government, such as tightening eligibility and rendering harsher conditions for welfare benefits, had fuelled ‘distrust and disenchantment’ amid increasing precarity, weaker unions and a declining labour share in economic output’

#socialDemocracy #responsibleGovernment #taxesPayForSecurity

https://www.socialeurope.eu/social-rights-the-idea-whose-time-has-come

Finland is the most free country in the world! #SocialDemocracy makes you free. Wrote about this once: jmkorhonen.wpcomstaging.com/2017/12/05/f...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:udgng23ku6qnywblou5jkehg/post/3mhgakmdgis2i

Finland is the land of persona...

Today, my membership cancellation has been processed by the NSW Branch of the #Labor Party (#NSWLabor). It no longer represents me, nor many thousands of others I’m sure, and has used up all the loyalty and trust I once had invested in it.

From now on my membership fees and any donation I might have made to the Party will be directed elsewhere (not a political party), to where I think will help #Australia get back on track to #SocialDemocracy where the benefits equally flow to all Australians and not just the #ChoosenFew. As for my vote, it will have to earn it back.

#Poverty is a political choice
#HousingAffordability is a political choice
#CivicLiberties are a political choice
#EquityDiversityInclusion are a political choice
#WealthDistribution is a political choice
#CostOfLiving is a political choice

There is no getting away from #politics nor our civic duty to make sound political choices for all of us living, on this stollen land, on the great #SouthernLand.

#Antifa #TaxTheRich #AusPol

Two key declarations in the neoliberal surge of the eighties were made my Thatcher and Reagan

In '86 Reagan described the 9 most 'terrifying' words in the English language as "I'm from the government and I'm here to help"

I remember this being reported in Rolling Stone like it was some kind of counter-culture platitude, unworthy of serious analysis or consideration

In '87 Thatcher said "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families"

#neoliberalism #politicalEconomy #socialDemocracy #whereToFromHere

@sigismundninja The nordic social democrats are not left. They are right wing. They never rejected neoliberalism and today they have the same politics as the conservatives. Racist and in favour of the rich. Not populist and not TAN-left. Not left at all. #socialdemocracy. #politics #eupol #ukpo

The only successful western social democratic parties are from within the Nordic countries. Why is that? Because of culture, tradition and relatively strong unions? Or because they've rejected neoliberalism before it was too late? Or because they've become more populist or TAN-left?

#socialdemocracy #politics #eupol #ukpo #uspol

Or as the famous Soviet era joke goes, “In capitalism, man oppresses man. In communism, it’s the other way around.” I’m convinced we need and deserve something better. And that for all its very real flaws, #Nordic #SocialDemocracy is the least worst prototype and basis ever tested so far.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l5qgtdxd462q6cz5hbt25edk/post/3mfiycdejds2y

No one individual needs this criminal amount of money. Every single person on this planet deserves to be happy, healthy, and debt free. We don't vote for our political parties if they are not committed to taxing the hell out of them. 90% tax or more.
#TaxTheRich #SocialDemocrats #socialdemocracy #Wealth

The left which isn't able to embrace materialism and the interests of the domestic working class, will never be able to defeat right wing populists or fascists. Stick to the #liberalism of last season and your movement will die. I.e. advocating for immigration that increases economic pressure on the domestic working class, will kill your movement. Idealism can only exist where there is perceived abundance.

#socialism #socialdemocracy #neoliberalism #labor #SPD #democrats

Ali Velshi: Trump Built an Autocratic Socialist State While Attacking Mamdani

Fox hyped a capitalism-vs-socialism battle, but Velshi shows Trump’s autocratic socialism dwarfs anything Mamdani proposes.

#aiSubsidies #aliVelshi #autocraticSocialism #corporateCorruption #democraticSocialism #donaldTrump #economicJustice #egbertoWillies #foxNews #howardLutnick #intelStake #mediaHypocrisy #oligarchy #politicsDoneRight #progressivePolitics #socialDemocracy #zohranMamdani

https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-omV

A lazy Bill Maher using capitalist talking points slamming Democratic Socialism was embarrassing.

Bill Maher is using his platform to promote billionaires’ Democratic Socialism fearing message because of Zohran Mamdani’s effective deconstruction of a failed economic system in digestible form.

#billMaher #billionaireInfluence #capitalismCritique #democraticPartyFuture #democraticSocialism #economicJustice #leftPolitics #mediaCritique #mediaMisinformation #medicareForAll #politicalCommentary #politicalEstablishment #progressiveMovement #progressivePolitics #singlePayerHealthcare #socialDemocracy #uSEconomy #vermontHealthcare #wealthInequality #zohranMamdani

https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-odf

A lazy Bill Maher using capitalist talking points slamming Democratic Socialism was embarrassing.

Bill Maher is using his platform to promote billionaires’ Democratic Socialism fearing message because of Zohran Mamdani’s effective deconstruction of a failed economic system in digestible form.

#billMaher #billionaireInfluence #capitalismCritique #democraticPartyFuture #democraticSocialism #economicJustice #leftPolitics #mediaCritique #mediaMisinformation #medicareForAll #politicalCommentary #politicalEstablishment #progressiveMovement #progressivePolitics #singlePayerHealthcare #socialDemocracy #uSEconomy #vermontHealthcare #wealthInequality #zohranMamdani

https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-odf

The ‘Sewer #Socialism’ of #ZohranMamdani

By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Mr. Dionne is a contributing Opinion writer.
Oct. 16, 2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/opinion/mamdani-nyc-mayor-sewer-socialism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t08.aJG-.MEFBgMYQHfjw&smid=url-share

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[shareable gift article]

Beyond the specifics, history teaches that #progressive mayors prosper when they understand why voters put them in office. Sheri Berman, a Barnard College political scientist and a widely respected scholar of #SocialDemocracy, offers a brisk two-part formula. “Successful left-wing mayors,” she told me, “focused on (a.) problems in their cities, and (b.) problems where they had the power to do something.”

For history buffs, Mr. #Mamdani has done the service of rekindling an interest in a largely forgotten American tradition, the “sewer socialists” who ran a significant list of cities in the last century. The most durable among them was Daniel Hoan, the #socialist mayor of Milwaukee from 1916 to 1940.

#TaxTheRich
#HousingIsAHumanRight
#USA #US #USpol #politics #NYC #NewYork
#news

Fantastic analysis from #GeorgeMonbiot. We need to be gathering together around the world to stop the rise of #oligarchy.

Who's up for a #revolution?
#FarRight #PowerToThePeople #Society #SocialDemocrats #socialdemocracy #Brexit #Europe #FutureOfEurope

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CXsFRxuRW/

Fantastic analysis from #GeorgeMonbiot. We need to be gathering together around the world to stop the rise of #oligarchy.

Who's up for a #revolution?
#FarRight #PowerToThePeople #Society #SocialDemocrats #socialdemocracy #Brexit #Europe #FutureOfEurope

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CXsFRxuRW/

Fantastic analysis from #GeorgeMonbiot. We need to be gathering together around the world to stop the rise of #oligarchy.

Who's up for a #revolution?
#FarRight #PowerToThePeople #Society #SocialDemocrats #socialdemocracy #Brexit #Europe #FutureOfEurope

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CXsFRxuRW/

Fantastic analysis from #GeorgeMonbiot. We need to be gathering together around the world to stop the rise of #oligarchy.

Who's up for a #revolution?
#FarRight #PowerToThePeople #Society #SocialDemocrats #socialdemocracy #Brexit #Europe #FutureOfEurope

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CXsFRxuRW/

Fantastic analysis from #GeorgeMonbiot. We need to be gathering together around the world to stop the rise of #oligarchy.

Who's up for a #revolution?
#FarRight #PowerToThePeople #Society #SocialDemocrats #socialdemocracy #Brexit #Europe #FutureOfEurope

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CXsFRxuRW/

https://renewal.org.uk/articles/social-democracy-for-a-zero-sum-world/

I always find Paul Mason a worthwhile read, but he concedes too much to the right on immigration here.

Nevertheless, this article is thought provoking and should be read by anybody with a serious interest in the future of the left in the UK.

#UKPolitics #SocialDemocracy #PaulMason #Labour

https://htsf.substack.com/p/corbynsultana-the-fiasco-party

I don't agree with Paul Mason's approach to immigration politics here, nor do I think he pays sufficient attention to Starmer's shift to the right since being elected leader, but his analysis and criticism of the Corbyn-Sultana party is compelling.

#UKPolitics #YourParty #JeremyCorbyn
#JamesSchneider #ZarahSultana #LeftPolitics #Socialism #SocialDemocracy #JohnRees #PaulMason

#Neoliberalism destroyed the US and traumatized the #EU. But that era is finally over. Now let's make sure #egalitarian #keynesianism wins over fascism once again. This is an opportunity. 🌹

#eupol #uspol #postliberalism #socialdemocracy

"People aren't crazy, people aren't stupid, they understand that this is an unjust world. That you can be filthy rich without working, and that you can work two jobs and still can't afford to find a home. That's the reality, for millions of people in the Western world, and if we don't fix that they'll never vote for us again."

#FransTimmermans, Leader of Dutch Labour party, 2025

https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/02/122-how-europe-can-survive-trump-frans-timmermans/

Hey NZ Labour (and US Democrats), are you taking notes?

#Labour #SocialDemocracy

POR QUÉ DEBEMOS ESCUCHAR DE NUEVO EL DISCURSO DE CHAPLIN CONTRA EL FASCISMO

Las palabras de ‘El gran dictador’, pronunciadas por Chaplin, son un antídoto contra el rebrote de extremismos imperante.

Artículo de Luis Meyer @ethicmag #defendingdemocracy #nonazis #charleschaplin #thegreatdictator #geraldinechaplin #socialdemocracy #equality #merciful #compassion

It's a true shame #JonStewart refuses to run for office.

#socialism #commonsense #SocialDemocracy #progressive #VoteProgressive #capitalismisascam #CapitalismIsACult

https://www.threads.net/@guy_fawkes_news/post/DEqu7eiuwXs?xmt=AQGzIwKAK_vDufvacc03rwDjXUrKjBV-ETCfjhrNd8YzmQ

"There is a way to set up your fiscal and welfare institutions that avoids both marriage penalties and marriage bonuses, though this approach is rarely mentioned in the US policy discourse. The solution has three pieces to it:

- Tax all income personally. In our current system, Medicare, Social Security, and Unemployment taxes are assessed on each individual’s personal income while the federal income tax is assessed on tax units that combine spousal income and then apply different rates based on whether an individual is filing singly, jointly, or as a single parent. We should change the federal income tax so that it is assessed on each individual’s personal income just like Medicare, Social Security, and Unemployment taxes are. This would make it so that tax situations do not change based on marriage.

- Provide welfare benefits personally. Welfare benefit eligibility should also be based on the circumstances of specific individuals not families. Unemployed people should get unemployment benefits regardless of how much money others in their family or household earn. The same for disabled people, elderly people, children, and so on. Some of our benefits already work like this, but others do not. By providing benefits to individuals based on their personal circumstances, you make it so that their benefit situations do not change based on marriage.

- Eliminate means tests. Welfare benefit eligibility and levels should be based on an individual’s current status (e.g., whether they are unemployed, disabled, on leave, a student) and, for income-smoothing benefits, their prior earnings. As with (2), this ensures that family composition does not end up affecting benefit eligibility.

Of course, this just describes the ideal form of the universal social democratic welfare state. This should come as no surprise."

https://jacobin.com/2025/01/universalism-welfare-states-marriage-medicaid

#USA #WelfareState #Universalism #Medicaid #SocialDemocracy

Fight for universal medicare #ableg #Canada #conservative #CPC #Democrat #Healthcare #healthInsurance #liberal #LPC #MAGA #medicalcannabis #medicalmarijuana #Medicare #NDP #NewDemocrat #PierrePoilievre #PoliticalNews #politics #Republican #SocialDemocracy #solidarity #Trudeau #Trump #UCP #union #yeg

This lucidly written and elegantly argued book should be read by everybody on the left, especially those of us apt to turn to concepts such as "false consciousness", "hegemony", or "dominant ideology" when explaining the current impasse of socialist and social democratic parties.

‘The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn’ by Vivek Chibber reviewed by Chris James Newlove – Marx & Philosophy Society

https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/21163_the-class-matrix-social-theory-after-the-cultural-turn-by-vivek-chibber-reviewed-by-chris-james-newlove/

#TheClassMatrix #VivekChibber #Class #SocialTheory #Marx #Materialism #Marxism #Culturalism #Socialism #SocialDemocracy #PoliticalTheory #Politics

This lucidly written and elegantly argued book should be read by everybody on the left, especially those of us apt to turn to concepts such as "false consciousness", "hegemony", or "dominant ideology" when explaining the current impasse of socialist and social democratic parties.

‘The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn’ by Vivek Chibber reviewed by Chris James Newlove – Marx & Philosophy Society

https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/21163_the-class-matrix-social-theory-after-the-cultural-turn-by-vivek-chibber-reviewed-by-chris-james-newlove/

#TheClassMatrix #VivekChibber #Class #SocialTheory #Marx #Materialism #Marxism #Culturalism #Socialism #SocialDemocracy #PoliticalTheory #Politics

This lucidly written and elegantly argued book should be read by everybody on the left, especially those of us apt to turn to concepts such as "false consciousness", "hegemony", or "dominant ideology" when explaining the current impasse of socialist and social democratic parties.

‘The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn’ by Vivek Chibber reviewed by Chris James Newlove – Marx & Philosophy Society

https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/21163_the-class-matrix-social-theory-after-the-cultural-turn-by-vivek-chibber-reviewed-by-chris-james-newlove/

#TheClassMatrix #VivekChibber #Class #SocialTheory #Marx #Materialism #Marxism #Culturalism #Socialism #SocialDemocracy #PoliticalTheory #Politics