[lbo-talk] Social Democracy

[tfast at yorku.ca]

check my immediate correction to the original post.  Should have read "find a SD
party that has moved right when they have had a viable electoral party to their
left."  The British Labour party is of course exactly the example I had in mind
which is usefully compared to the SPDs in Germany.  They want to go right but
they can't.

Travis

Quoting Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at rogers.com>:


> Actually, there are many cases - the British Labour Party being the most
> notable example - where SD's have moved right in the absence of "a viable
> electoral party to their left". Not only the SD's, but avowedly more left
> parties like the Italian and French CP's and the German Greens all moderated
> their programs and rhetoric as they became more electorally successful.
>