The Western world faces a dilemma to-day: what happened to the social-democratic infrastructure which determined the parameters of latter Twentieth Century political discourse, and should we attempt to revive this order of things?
I feel the need now to emphatically respond 'no we should not', as the answer to the former question is 'the Socialist Bloc was dismantled, making social-democratic policy obsolete in the grand historical sense'. Just as feudalism is no more than a historical mode of production and corresponding societal organisation, so is social-democracy relegated to such a paßed epoch. An analogy, if I may, demanding a return to social-democratic proceßes is to declare 'the Earth, 'tis central and static!' still in this advanced astronomical era. Socialism can be considered the motor engine of history, but this outmodes the long-invented social-democratic wheel, does it not?
Those calling for the restoration of social-democracy have no doubt the finest intentions of simply helping the people, blißfully unaware (due to many years of vested interest distracting from this information) of how social-democracy was and must logically be funded by exploitation of neo-colonial labour, only to postpone the impending capitalist crises. The truth of this matter is that socialism is the only path forward; a planned economy is a democratic economy of the people's community.
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