After Social Democracy:
@article{Burchell2021AfterSD, title={After Social Democracy:}, author={David Burchell}, journal={The Age of Social Democracy}, year={2021} }
he 80s was a graveyard of doctrines. Not just Soviet-style socialism, but also the whole idea of a 'system change', of a successor to capitalism waiting to be born, finally passed away, as its death notice might put it, 'after a long illness'. In this era of shattered utopias and a generalised scaling-down of expectations, social democracy, it seems, is one of the few among the major politi cal ideologies to retain at least a semblance of its credibility.
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