r/SocialDemocracy

I'm from the Netherlands and a couple of days ago I posted a reaction on a post on a Facebook page linked to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, explaining that I'm in favor of social democracy, the accomplishments of social democracy and why I don't think socialism and all the other political systems aren't and how neo liberalism is trying to get away with a lot of those accomplishments. People really didn't like that to put it mildly. They really believe that social democracy and liberalism are almost the same and that social democracy is as much as something to be fought as liberals, centrists and right wing parties. While on the other hand I don't really believe them understanding what real socialism, without the democratic bit, implies. And that what they really want is a strong social state that regulates and takes care of vital public goods.

In 2021 a initiative to socialize parts of the largest real estate firms in Berlin won a majority. Since then the state government has been dragging its feet to implement it. Meanwhile the initiative drafted their own law on how to implement this and is currently gathering support to have a 2nd vote directly on the law itself. The governments of Bavaria already threatened the initiative with a ban.
The now proposed law would strip the states of the right to socialize housing on their own, leaving this power with the federal level. Curiously there are several state constitutions which have their own articles allowing expropriation, which would be nullified by this law, making this law somewhat questionable from a constitutional perspective. There are going to be elections in Berlin in autumn and the spd is already trailing basically every other relevant party in the polls and several state spd members have voiced their disappointment with this law after the performance of the federal SPD had a massive impact on the Socdems loosing the state elections in rhineland palatinate for the first time in 35 years.

The law is part of bigger package which also includes defanging the transparancy laws concerning access to government data and the more infamous sick leave permissions from the first day.

Should I stay in Bulgaria or move to Denmark? I live in a politically pluralist area here, but the overall culture is predominantly moderately socially conservative and the recentProgressive Bulgaria (which is some sort of left wing national populist garbage with eurosceptic and pro ruasian bias) Part of me wants to leave, but part of me wants to find reasons to stay. What are your thoughts?

I am a progressive from Asia, I support both Israel and Palestine, I think both Israelis and Palestinians must live in peace. I shared my opinion and was accused of being a fascist by the progressives. They told me that Israel should be destroyed completely and that Hamas are freedom fighters. I have been accused of eating Palestinian babies alive for suggesting Israel shouldn't be destroyed completely.

Dalai

Hello everyone! Today's the Fourth of July (and hopefully still is by the time you see this) and I'm going to ask a question related to the United States! I am going to ask your opinion on the issue of Puerto Rico's status as an unincorporated territory under the designation of commonwealth. And whether or not it needs to change, and in what direction.

No, the I/P conflict still lives rent-free in my head. Yes, this is one of my methods of coping with it.

What are your thoughts and opinions on the issue of Puerto Rican statehood or secession?

If you wish for statehood, why? Why not secession?

If you wish for status quo, why? Why neither statehood nor secession?

If you wish for secession, why? Why not statehood?

Personally, as a non-American and non-Puerto Rican (and therefore, someone with no skin in this game), I would prefer statehood. Mainly because if Alaska and Hawaii are states, why not Puerto Rico? And also, France's overseas departments and regions (Guadeloupe and Martinique in the Caribbean) have exactly the same status as Metropolitan France's departments and regions (like Île-de-France and Normandy) so why not the US's Caribbean holdings? It just feels right.

I would like to hear what you would like Puerto Rico's future status to be.

Happy Fourth of July and happy 250th birthday to the United States of America! Presidents come and go, but the nation and its people endure!

EDIT: To any and all Americans on here, how was your Fourth of July? Got any fireworks? Got a grill going? Or some nice beers with friends and/or family?

Tony Blair, Alistair Campbell, Helmut Schmidt or Peter Hitchens?

If we truly believe in the promise of a “government of the people, by the people, and for the people,” then we must be willing to examine whether our current systems live up to that ideal. Reform is not a rejection of America’s founding principles—it is an effort to fulfill them. A stronger democracy is not one where one party wins forever. This is a deep dive into MAGA Mike Johnson's attempt to make the DSA look "dangerous." But his examples from the DSA platform are hardly a threat...

I am guessing the NDP but they have been lacking

By my definitions, Soc Dems are more capitalist. Socialism requires workers to own the means of production which requires (usually) abolition of private property and government mandates against capital owners.

By the definitions conservatives use, or even some leftists use, it’s kinda 50-50. Conservatives call Obamacare, public transit, progressive taxes or basically anything the government does socialist.

By the first definition, you can’t really be a mix, you’re either capitalist or socialist. By the 2nd definition, every economy exists on a spectrum between capitalism and socialism.

Also what politicians would you consider Soc Dems? Are AOC, Mamdani, and Bernie Soc Dems are Dem Socs? If they’re too far left, is Pete Budigeg a Soc Dem? Where’s the line between Neolib and Soc Dem