Maybe not in the US but social democracy is pretty viable in both Canada and in Scandinavia. By some definitions even the US could be considered a social democratic system. Contemporary post WW2 social democracy generally means support for regulation of the economy and ameliorative measures to benefit the working class within the framework of capitalism.
Actually that sounds like the political platforms of both the democratic party and until recently the republicans (before the wild eyed crazies took over). On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Casey Dougall - Uber Website Solutions <ca...@uberwebsitesolutions.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> >> Nope doesn't sound like any form of socialism to me, classic, Fabian, >> social democracy or otherwise. It would appear that the canard that >> the Nazi's were socialist is just that an extreme right wing lie. > > > > The only Socialists around now days are the NFL, it works for them :-) > http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/02/01/the_nfl_equals_socialism_bill_maher_illustrated_by_fraser_davidson.html > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:346587 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
