Social Democracy Without Social Democrats
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on Democratic Left
· May 30, 2016 9:46 AM
Can the Left Recover?
By Neal Lawson
European social democrats have been engaged in serious efforts to rethink how the social democratic tradition must be transformed to meet the demands of the 21st century.
One of the online publications advocating this reappraisal in the United Kingdom is Compass, whose Neal Lawson recently posted a thought-provoking essay asking how one can have social democracy without social democrats. Though specifically addressing the UK, Lawson’s essay is relevant to the dilemmas of all social democrats/democratic socialists in the rest of Europe and North America.