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Social Democracy

Sheri Berman · 2014

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The Encyclopedia of Political Thought entry consulted for Berman's account of social democracy's democratic-revisionist origins.

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  • Gilabert and O'Neill distinguish reforms that tame capitalism from socialist models intended to end its class division, while Berman presents social democracy as an alternative to orthodox Marxism; together these classifications leave social democracy's ownership endpoint contested.

    • supports · abstract and pp. 3495–3496

  • Sources describe social democracy both as a democratic-revisionist current within socialist history and as a strategy for constraining capitalism through democratic institutions, so the term does not specify one fixed ownership endpoint.

    • supports · abstract and pp. 3495–3496

  • Berman traces social democracy to late-nineteenth-century revisionists who rejected orthodox Marxist historical determinism and class struggle in favor of political agency and cooperation across classes.

    • supports · abstract and pp. 3495–3496