When they ultimately fail to contain the class struggle they will side with the fascists and turn their guns on the working class like they did in both world wars.
Uhhhhh what? WWI was pre-fascist, WWII had social democrats on the same side as liberals and communists against the fascists.
Both of those examples are from shortly after WWI. And both involve attempts by armed communist groups to seize control of the state, which for good or ill is not something we’re going to be dealing with in the US for the foreseeable future.
Is there anywhere in particular you’re referring to? The US at least doesn’t really have a social democratic party, and the closest thing we do have, the Democrats, certainly don’t have any level of institutional control of the country’s labor unions.
What I mean about the US not having a social democratic party is that the Democrats are to the right of what we’d usually refer to as social democrats - at best a hybrid between a social democratic party and a liberal party. Classic European social democratic parties were born as socialist parties aiming at a gradual parliamentary transition to socialism, which through a combination of moderating themselves and being defeated electorally never actually managed to get there. DSA does have a lot in common with that earlier version of social democracy, though in the present day they’re more aligned with the further left parties like die linke or podemos than the official still existing social democrats.
As for the union issue, you’re not distinguishing between unions being a major constituency of the Democratic Party and their being controlled by it. Democrats are obviously not as consistently pro-union as we’d like, but they for the most part accept them as a valuable part of their coalition who they need to keep happy, as opposed to Republicans who want to bathe in their blood.
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Uhhhhh what? WWI was pre-fascist, WWII had social democrats on the same side as liberals and communists against the fascists.
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Both of those examples are from shortly after WWI. And both involve attempts by armed communist groups to seize control of the state, which for good or ill is not something we’re going to be dealing with in the US for the foreseeable future.
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Is there anywhere in particular you’re referring to? The US at least doesn’t really have a social democratic party, and the closest thing we do have, the Democrats, certainly don’t have any level of institutional control of the country’s labor unions.
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What I mean about the US not having a social democratic party is that the Democrats are to the right of what we’d usually refer to as social democrats - at best a hybrid between a social democratic party and a liberal party. Classic European social democratic parties were born as socialist parties aiming at a gradual parliamentary transition to socialism, which through a combination of moderating themselves and being defeated electorally never actually managed to get there. DSA does have a lot in common with that earlier version of social democracy, though in the present day they’re more aligned with the further left parties like die linke or podemos than the official still existing social democrats.
As for the union issue, you’re not distinguishing between unions being a major constituency of the Democratic Party and their being controlled by it. Democrats are obviously not as consistently pro-union as we’d like, but they for the most part accept them as a valuable part of their coalition who they need to keep happy, as opposed to Republicans who want to bathe in their blood.
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