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[–] 12 points 5 months ago (6 children)

No. Social democracy needs superprofits from the periphery to fund the core. Capitalism requires exploitation to function. If every nation is the core, who gets exploited? The surplus value does not exist. When accumulation slows, the bourgeoisie abandons reform. They choose fascism to protect property. The SPD proved this when they sided with reactionaries against workers. Reformism tries to manage a system built on violence. It cannot work globally because the economic base forbids it. The only path is revolution. Seize the means of production. End the imperialist chain.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (5 children)

    Social democracy needs superprofits from the periphery to fund the core.

    But there are social democratic parties in developing countries.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Those "social democratic" parties in the periphery aren't proof the model works globally. They're rebranded revolutionary movements (MPLA, FRELIMO, ANC) that dropped Marxist-Leninist labels after the Soviet Union collapsed. Without that protection, they faced a stark choice: adopt the language of the Socialist International or risk regime change, sanctions, or outright intervention by the imperial core. The label shift was a survival tactic, not evidence that social democracy can function in a peripheral economy (because it can't).

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    The label shift was a survival tactic

    Fair, but why can't social democracy function in a peripheral (=developing?) country?

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Social democracy needs superprofits from the periphery to fund the core. Social democracy is a type of capitalism. Capitalism requires exploitation to function. If every nation is the core, who gets exploited? The surplus value does not exist.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    If a developing country invests in public education, free healthcare, transport infrastructure, housing, etc., is that not social democracy? Why wouldn't that work?

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