Cheung Mo
16th April 2006, 19:52
I know that pre-Cold War social democracy was an attempt at building a classless society and Marxist state by using existing democratic structures to reform the state (n contrast to the revolutionary tactics endorsed by other factions of the radical left at the time). In contrast, modern social democracy is a left-wing strand (relatively speaking) of capitalism that calls for its reform and humanisation without actually replacing it with socialism or communism (And in fact, post-cold war social democracy doesn't even go that far due to the development of the Third Way and other reactionary attempts at reconciling social democracy with the aims of the neo-liberal/neo-con elite.).
Based on this (d)evolution of social democracy, would it be correct to say that parties like Germans PDS-Left Party, the French Communist Party, the left wing of the New Zealand Green Party (its anarchist and Trotskyist fringe), and Italy's pro-Prodi communist parties are not communists and all and are at most identical to the social democrats of old?
Based on this (d)evolution of social democracy, would it be correct to say that parties like Germans PDS-Left Party, the French Communist Party, the left wing of the New Zealand Green Party (its anarchist and Trotskyist fringe), and Italy's pro-Prodi communist parties are not communists and all and are at most identical to the social democrats of old?