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# The Theory of Social Democracy

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    A good attempt to theorise modern social-democracy
  

*by S***M on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 21, 2008*

This book amounts to a fine attempt to theorise a political approach that has tended to lack a distinct and coherent theory.  Until the 1990s social-democracy was mostly defined as "moderate socialism", "reformist socialism" or "centre-leftism" and, despite its real-world performance, it generally lacked a coherent theoretical base tending instead towards mildly ideological pragmatism.  Most social-democratic party constitutions still remain rooted in a democratic-socialist discourse to this day despite the absence of interest in pursuing such goals in reality.  The gap that has existed between the professed socialist aims of most social-democratic parties and their moderate, pragmatic practices has proved an interesting area of study for academic and activist critics of social-democracy but has done little to facilitate the development of a specific "social-democratic thinking".  For most of its history, social-democracy has mostly amounted to relatively distinct set of identifiable policies but lacked an underlying theory of its own.  Since the 1990s however, social-democracy has been in a process of transformation that has led its own right wing to explicitly define its goals in not only in non-socialist terms, but also in ways that break with traditional social-democratic practices and values.  This text attempts to provide a theoretical understanding rooted in traditional, pragmatic, centre-left social-democracy while both acknowledging its socialist roots and also dealing with the challenge posed by its right wing "Third Way" variant.  Overall, it is an impressive attempt to delineate a specifically "social-democratic" (as distinct from socialist or "Third Way") approach to policy.  It is an interesting process observing the emergence of an expressly non-socialist (even anti-socialist) discourse within social-democratic parties around the world which has pushed them clearly outside the traditional understanding of the "Left" into "centre-right" territory. This book might be seen as a move to reconceptualise social-democracy as a movement of the "centre-left" as it has traditionally been understood in post-war Europe.  This text is a very welcome, if not entirely convincing attempt at defining and re-casting the social-democratic project in the post cold-war era in a way that deserves the attention, discussion and critique of serious democratic socialist and social-democratic thinkers.  A very good launching pad for debate.

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    Good theory but otherwise pretentious academia.
  

*by T***T on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 7, 2022*

From my FB page, Race for EqualityLet me preface this post by saying that Thomas Meyer’s book, “The Theory of Social Democracy”, left me with so many mixed feelings that I was not able to finish it. The good things his text has to offer are so few and far between that I contemplated not writing anything at all. However, after reading and sorting through his pretentious dialogue for several days, it would have frustrated me even more to say nothing.I downloaded the book because I believe that if I’m going to continue taking a staunch position on social matters and racism in the black community, I should expand my horizons on broader variables, such as developing a better understanding of how to resolve our broken judicial system. And make no mistake, it is broken. Not only do the numbers show it, not only are there truckloads of information to back up that research, but the pervasive arrogance of white culture to deny those truths lingers in the air like the stench of ferment once you’ve internalized it.I digress, however. What I was looking for from Meyer was solutions. While there were redeeming moments in his book that made me feel confident in my purchase, it was an overall disappointment. Let me be frank: a “circus of words” in speech or text has no advantage over the toddler who says exactly what he wants plainly and clearly. Meyer’s authorship, though ideologically valid, was academic garbage. Suffice it to say, his book could easily have been 40% shorter and more concise if he had been more organized both in his delivery and his content.I will never again buy one of his books and unless you want the headache I had, I suggest you do the same. As with my other reviews, this will also go on the Amazon site. He gets two stars instead of one, saved only by his vocabulary.

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    Still relevant and forces us to reflect on democracy and social rights!
  

*by J***G on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 24, 2017*

I have never been reading Social Democratic theory before. But this book is Reaktion enlightening in order to compare what a Social Democratic world is and can be. It’s clear differentiation to libertarian thinking is illuminating

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