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Socialist democracy is a political system that aligns with principles of both socialism and democracy. It includes ideologies such as council communism, democratic socialism, social democracy, and soviet democracy, as well as Marxist democracy like the dictatorship of the proletariat. It was embodied in the Soviet system (1922–1991). [1]
From 2007 to 2009, Hu Jintao promoted intra-party party democracy (dangnei minzhu, 党内民主) in an effort to decrease the party's focus on top-down decision-making. [37]: 18 The core socialist values campaign introduced during the 18th National Congress in 2012 [38] promotes democracy as one of its four national values.
With the association of social democracy as a policy regime [101] and the development of the Third Way, [23] social democracy became almost exclusively associated with capitalist welfare states, [102] while democratic socialism came to refer to anti-capitalist tendencies, including communism, revolutionary socialism, and reformist socialism. [103]
One issue is that social democracy is equated with wealthy countries in the Western world, especially in Northern and Western Europe, while democratic socialism is conflated either with the pink tide in Latin America, especially with Venezuela, [162] or with communism in the form of Marxist–Leninist socialism as practised in the Soviet Union ...
Social democracy can be divided into classical and modern strands. Classical social democracy attempts to achieve socialism through gradual, parliamentary means and by introducing it from within democracy rather than through revolutionary means. The term social democracy can refer to the particular kind of society that social democrats advocate.
In the United Kingdom, the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) put forward a slate of candidates in the 2009 European Parliament election under the banner of No to EU – Yes to Democracy, a broad left-wing Eurosceptic, alter-globalisation coalition involving socialist groups such as the Socialist Party, aiming to offer ...
Following the Revolutions of 1989, the people's republics of Central and Eastern Europe (namely Albania, [45] Bulgaria, [46] Hungary, [47] and Poland [48]), as well as Mongolia, [49] dropped the term people's from their names due to the term's association with their former communist governments, and became known simply as republics, adopting ...
People's democracy is a theoretical concept of Marxism–Leninism that advocates the establishment of a multi-class and multi-party democracy during the transition from capitalism to socialism. People's democracy was developed after World War II and implemented in a number of European and Asian countries as a result of the people's democratic ...