Social democracy is a
political ideology of the
centre-left on the
classic political spectrum. It is by tradition a form
evolutionary reformist socialism...committed [to] the replacement of capitalism with socialism [through evolutionary or reformist means] and committed adherents to oppose
Stalinist communism...
Social democracy promotes the creation of
economic democracy as a means to secure workers' rights.
[3] Social democracy rejects the
Marxian principle of
dictatorship of the proletariat, claiming that gradualist democratic reforms will improve the rights of the
working class.
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The goal of social democracy is to complement capitalism through parliamentary and democratic processes in order to achieve a
mixed economy, controlled by a representative government. This includes financial regulation, and various state sponsored programs to ameliorate and remove the inequities and injustices inflicted by the market system. Social democrats do not aim to replace the fundamental aspects of capitalism;
private-ownership of the means of production, the system of
wage-labor and commodity production; instead social democrats advocate
Third way positions and the
social market economy. The term itself is also used to refer to the particular kind of society that social democrats advocate.
[5]
...In the early 20th century, however, a number of socialist parties rejected
revolution and other traditional ideas of
Marxism such as
class struggle, and went on to take more moderate positions. These moderate positions included a belief that
reformism was a desirable way to achieve socialism. However, modern social democracy has deviated from socialism, now championing the idea of a democratic
welfare state which incorporates elements of both
socialism and
capitalism.
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