Week 7 on Social Democracy

Week 7. Varieties of Socialism: (1) Democratic Socialism; (2) Social Democracy and Market-Democratic Socialism: Liberalism in Socialist Get-up?

Carl Cohen, “Socialist Democracy,” Four Systems (Random House, 1982): 41-68

Bernie Sanders, "Democratic Socialism," Speech of 19 November 2015 at Georgetown University

Tony Wright, “A New Socialism?” Socialisms: Old and New, pp. 124-149

So you'd like to see a 21st-century social-democratic outlook...

Check out IKEA's corporate philosophy, New Statesman magazine, Dissent magazine, or the Preamble of the Constitution of Canada's New Democratic Party. (The Nation, which from the

2000s through the beginning of the Great Recession looked almost indistinguishable from a social liberal magazine, seems recently to have recommitted firmly to social democracy and to even be flirting with

democratic socialism.)

Or read Tony Judt, "What Is Living and What Is Dead in Social Democracy?" (New York Review of Books, 2009)

Website of the world's international organization of social-democratic (formerly socialist?) parties (UK Labour, French Socialist, German SDP, Indian National Congress, Spanish PSOE, Canadian NDP...)

The Progressive Alliance

Social-democratic-ish members of the US Congress

Congressional Progressive Caucus

Social-democratic-ish think tanks

Institute for Policy Studies (US), Fabian Society (UK), Policy Network (UK; half social-democratic, half social-liberal), Center for American Progress (same)