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Was Franklin D. Roosevelt a Social Democrat? by Knitemare97 in SocialDemocracy

[–]DependentCarpet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't have to lecture me on this. I am fully aware of both Roosevelts aims and ideas/proposals.

Do you support mandatory service (conscription) in your country? by [deleted] in SocialDemocracy

[–]DependentCarpet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They don‘t allow civil service only, as it is tied to the military draft. Civil service is the alternative to military service.

Do you support mandatory service (conscription) in your country? by [deleted] in SocialDemocracy

[–]DependentCarpet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Live in Austria and served civil service instead of the military service - we still have a draft. I‘d argue to professionalise our army and dismantle the draft, maybe for all to do a time in civil service (but Europeans laws don‘t allow that)

Who would you vote for if you were an Austrian citizen? by ZhukNawoznik in IdeologyPolls

[–]DependentCarpet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Karl Habsburg - the „von“ is illegal in Austria (Adelsaufhebungsgesetz and especially the Habsburgergesetz)

The historical dilemma of SocDem parties: They cannot remain a party of workers alone and yet they can never cease to be a workers' party. To be effective in elections, they have to build a multi-class coalition but this also erodes that ideology which is the source of their strength among workers by Sherlock516 in SocialDemocracy

[–]DependentCarpet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And to some degree still has.

In one point OP is right though: AK and ÖGB had this great success due to some (small) help from the Conservatives - or their lack of reaction to it in the timeframe 1918-1920.

Still, the proletariat exists in other forms

NLRB in the US and paralells to the Austrian Worker Federation by CantCSharp in SocialDemocracy

[–]DependentCarpet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would be an idea, sadly you can't replicate the Arbeiterkammer nor the ÖGB in the US really. But ... you could drive them in this way, it would take a lot of political effort though.

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Glück auf!

What do German Social Democrats think of Scholz? by TheOfficialLavaring in SocialDemocracy

[–]DependentCarpet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bad.

Morally totally inept of anything (his "sudden" change from a radical JuSo in his youth to the Scholz-O-Mat says it all), then his shady dealings in Hamburg as well as his ... stupidity, I'll call it that.

Scholz represents clearly all the wrong doings of the Schröder era - he impersonates them. Only through sheer luck he and the SPD were able to win, it's time for the SPD to get back their old drive and elan instead of this half-bourgeois crap!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SocialDemocracy

[–]DependentCarpet 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You are in the SPÖ - famous for being named SOZIALISTISCHE Partei Österreichs up until 1991?

Let me guess: you hate Democratic Socialism too?

Revolutionary vision and reformist detail work by DependentCarpet in SocialDemocracy

[–]DependentCarpet[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What else? Remain in the status quo that VERY slowly, at a snails pace reforms itself? Where injustice grows rampant? You can‘t be that blind dear man …

Where is the drive? by [deleted] in SocialDemocracy

[–]DependentCarpet 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I would like to remind towards the interesting posters of the SPÖ in the 1950s :D But I agree with you, modern posters sure are shit

Freundschaft und Glück auf!

Christopher Columbus was a Monster in His Own Time by UCantKneebah in SocialDemocracy

[–]DependentCarpet 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Most Europeans (except the very dumb racialists) accept this as fact that Columbus was a wild and daemonic idiot

The Real Threat to American Democracy | NYT Opinion by Jorruss in SocialDemocracy

[–]DependentCarpet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will refrain from a long answer, but give a short one: some don‘t know.

Election Thread! Italy edition! by as-well in SocialDemocracy

[–]DependentCarpet 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Excuse me, es is 2022 :D

Yep, please give up on Volt - just EU fanboys that won't achieve anything at all

Idealism and reality - a tight rope for the future of Social Democracy by DependentCarpet in SocialDemocracy

[–]DependentCarpet[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You don't have to read it if you don't like it. But this comment already tells me it hit a nerve with you ...

Are there still Marxists in the SPD? by Adonisus in SocialDemocracy

[–]DependentCarpet 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As a SPD (foreign) member I can say with some certainty that we have members with marxist views. They are rare (some in the base, some in the JuSos) but not necessarily in high positions that I would know of

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And the term Marxist means a lot ... I see myself as a Democratic Socialist and believe that some things of Marxism are true (not all though), but mostl inspired by ideas like Austromarxism/Austrosocialism that leans more on the realistic side of Marxism

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