Island Republic｜島嶼共和國

社會民主在先進資本全面右轉的風潮中，未來性面臨考驗。這是一篇討論社會民主方向的文章，一篇異議雜誌上的報導，對於歐洲的社會民主發展作了精彩的分析。

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All these contemporary trends look irrevocable and they are creating a new and complex working class that is characterized more by their internal differences than any sense of shared collective consciousness. This is particularly dangerous for the future health of social democracy. Historically, the democratic parties of the center-left in Europe won political power in the interwar years, but especially after 1945, through their popular electoral appeal as broad-based “people’s parties” that were also rooted on the once important core of the organized manual working class. They did so by adopting programs and values that were held together strongly by the ideology of socialism and then social democracy. What made social democrats such a dominant intellectual force in European democratic societies was that they stressed and practiced social cohesion, solidarity, and collectivism.