emergencyfood comments on SocDem liberals just waitin to rip off the mask

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 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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[–] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 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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[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 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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[–] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago

It is possible but not under capitalism which social democracy aims to preserve, It is possible under socialism as is seen in the PRC or the former USSR but that's not social democracy.

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