'Democratic socialism advocates socialism as a basis for the economy and democracy as a governing principle. This means that the means of production are owned by the entire population and that political power would be in the hands of the people through a democratic state. Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements that envisage a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subjfuck grapesect to control by the community[1] for the purposes of increasing social and economic equality and cooperation. ... Means of production (abbreviated MoP; German: Produktionsmittel), also called means of labour are the materials, tools and other instruments used by workers to make products. ...

Basic concept

Socialism is based on the idea that the economy and means of production should be in the hands of ordinary working people,^[1] or in older terminology the "working class". Democratic socialism involves the entire population controlling the economy through some type of democratic system. Means of production (abbreviated MoP; German: Produktionsmittel), also called means of labour are the materials, tools and other instruments used by workers to make products. ... The term working class is used to denote a social class. ... It has been suggested that Democracy (varieties) be merged into this article or section. ...

Directly contrasting this is what some theorists call state capitalism in which a non-democratic state controls the means of production instead of the workers (as in, for example, the Soviet Union during and after Stalin's era). Some authors see democratic socialism as sharing many political ideas with social democracy, while others see them as radically opposed. Nevertheless, democratic socialists often share political parties with social democrats, such as the British Labour Party in the 1980s. Democratic socialism is the second-strongest current of socialism in terms of political success in free elections, immediately following social democracy.^{[citation needed]} There are multiple definitions of the term state capitalism. ... Iosif (usually anglicized as Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვი&#4314... Social democracy is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means. ... The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. ... The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. ...

Common ideas

Many types of socialism fit the above description, though many employ different methods for socializing the economy. Some common ideas are as follows:

• Economic planning: an economy that uses planning by elected representatives, geared for consumption rather than profit.
• Nationalization: taking control of the means of production from the bourgeoise and giving it to the state is a common idea amongst groups that call themselves democratic socialists.The more libertarian strain (eg. the Socialist Party USA) advocates socialization/direct workers ownership and control instead of state ownership.
• A state: most democratic socialists support parliamentary democracy, although libertarian socialists favor decentralized communes and other forms of non-statist social organization.
• Workplace democracy: the application of democracy to the workplace is naturally supported by those that call themselves democratic socialists.

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Definition

Democratic socialism is difficult to define, and groups of scholars have radically different definitions for the term. Some equate it to other socioeconomic systems such as libertarian socialism, state socialism or social democracy. While others claim that it is fundamentally different from those ideologies. Libertarian socialism is a group of political philosophies that aim to create a society without political, economic or social hierarchies - a society in which all violent or coercive institutions would be dissolved, and in their place every person would have free, equal access to tools of information and production, or... State socialism, broadly speaking, is any variety of socialism which relies on ownership of the means of production by the state. ... Social democracy is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means. ...

Among those definitions of democratic socialism which sharply distinguish it from social democracy, Peter Hain, for example, classes democratic socialism, along with libertarian socialism, as a form of anti-authoritarian “socialism from below” (using the term popularised by Hal Draper), in contrast to Stalinism and social democracy, variants of authoritarian state socialism. For him, this democratic/authoritarian divide is more important than the revolutionary/reformist divide.^[2] In this definition, it is the active participation of the population as a whole, and workers in particular, in the management of economy that characterises democratic socialism, while nationalisation and economic planning (whether controlled by an elected government or not) are characteristic of state socialism. A similar, but more complex, argument is made by Nicos Poulantzas.^[3] Social democracy is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means. ... Peter Gerald Hain PC MP (born February 16, 1950, Nairobi, Kenya) is a British Labour Party politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Secretary of State for Wales. ... Libertarian socialism is a group of political philosophies that aim to create a society without political, economic or social hierarchies - a society in which all violent or coercive institutions would be dissolved, and in their place every person would have free, equal access to tools of information and production, or... Anti-authoritarianism is opposition to authoritarianism, which is defined as concentration of power in a leader or an elite not constitutionally responsible to the people or the doctrine that advocates such absolutism in rule, as in autocracy, despotism, dictatorship, and totalitarianism. ... The Two Souls of Socialism is a socialist pamphlet written by Hal Draper, criticising different kinds of socialist movements, of the kind he collectively refers to as Socialism From Above and in the end arguing for Socialism From Below. This article is a stub. ... Hal Draper (1914-1990) was an American socialist activist, Marxist, Left-Shachtmanite, and author, perhaps best known for his role in the Berkeley, California Free Speech Movement. ... For architecture, see Stalinist architecture. ... The term authoritarian is used to describe an organization or a state which enforces strong and sometimes oppressive measures against the population, generally without attempts at gaining the consent of the population. ... State socialism, broadly speaking, is any variety of socialism which relies on ownership of the means of production by the state. ... Flag of the Revolutionary Socialists Revolutionary Socialism is a political ideology based on the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels advocating the revolutionary yet democratic liberation of the Proletariat. ... Reformism (also called revisionism or revisionist theory) is the belief that gradual changes in a society can ultimately change its fundamental structures. ... Nationalization is the act of taking assets into state ownership. ... A planned economy is an economic system in which decisions about the production, allocation and consumption of goods and services are planned ahead of time, usually in a centralized fashion, though some proposed systems favour decentralized planning. ... Nicos Poulantzas (1936-1979) was a Greco-French Marxist political sociologist. ...

In contrast, in other definitions, democratic socialism simply refers to all forms of socialism that follow an electoral, reformist or evolutionary path to socialism, rather than a revolutionary one.^[4] Evolutionary socialism is a form of socialist theory which was originally developed by Eduard Bernstein. ...

However, for those who use the term in this way, the scope of the term socialism itself can be very vague, and include forms of socialism compatible with capitalism. For example, Robert M. Page, a Reader in Democratic Socialism and Social Policy at the University of Birmingham, writes about "transformative democratic socialism" to refer to the politics of the Clement Atlee government (a strong welfare state, fiscal redistribution, some nationalisation) and "revisionist democratic socialism", as developed by Anthony Crosland and Harold Wilson: Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements that envisage a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subjfuck grapesect to control by the community[1] for the purposes of increasing social and economic equality and cooperation. ... Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, FRS (January 3, 1883 - October 8, 1967) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951. ... The Welfare State of the United Kingdom was prefigured in the William Beveridge Report in 1942, which identified five Giant Evils in society: squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease. ... Charles Anthony Raven Crosland (29 August 1918 - 19 February 1977) was a member of the Labour Party and an important socialist theorist. ... James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, PC (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was one of the most prominent British politicians of the 20th century. ...

”The most influential revisionist Labour thinker, Anthony Crosland..., contended that a more ‘benevolent’ form of capitalism had emerged since the [Second World War]... According to Crosland, it was now possible to achieve greater equality in society without the need for ‘fundamental’ economic transformation. For Crosland, a more meaningful form of equality could be achieved if the growth dividend derived from effective management of the economy was invested in 'pro-poor' public services rather than through fiscal redistribution.”^[5]

Indeed, some proponents of market socialism see the latter as a form of democratic socialism.^[6] Market socialism is a term used to define a number of economic system(s) in which the means of production are owned either by the state or by the workers collectively, however unlike traditional socialism there is market that is directed and guided by socialist planners. ...

A variant of this second set of definitions is Joseph Schumpeter’s argument, set out in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1941) that liberal democracies were evolving from “liberal capitalism” into democratic socialism, with the growth of workers’ self-management, industrial democracy and regulatory instutions.^[7] Joseph Schumpeter Joseph Alois Schumpeter (February 8, 1883 – January 8, 1950) was an economist from Austria and an influential political scientist. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Industrial Democracy is an economic arrangement which involves workers making decisions, sharing responsibility and authority in the workplace. ...

Other definitions fall somewhere between the first and second set, seeing democratic socialism as a specific political tradition closely related to and overlapping with social democracy. For example, Bogdan Denitch, in Democratic Socialism defines it as proposing a radical reorganization of the socio-economic order through public ownership, workers’ control of the labour process and redistributive tax policies. ^[8] Robert G. Picard similarly describes a democratic socialist tradition of thought including Eduard Bernstein, Karl Kautsky, Evan Durbin and Michael Harrington^[9] Eduard Bernstein Eduard Bernstein (January 6, 1850 - December 18, 1932) was a German social democratic theoretician and politician, member of the SPD, and founder of evolutionary socialism or reformism. ... Karl Kautsky (October 18, 1854 - October 17, 1938) was a leading theoretician of social democracy. ... Durbin, Evan Frank Mottram (1906-1948), economist and politician, was born at the manse, Westcroft, Bideford, Devon, on 1 March 1906, the son and last child of the Revd Frank Durbin, a Baptist minister in Devon, and his wife, Mary Louisa Mellor, the daughter of William Mottram, a well-known... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...

Finally, the term democratic socialism can be used to refer to a version of the Soviet model that was reformed in a democratic way. For example, Mikhail Gorbachev described perestroika as building a “new, humane and democratic socialism”^[10] Consequently, some former Communist parties have rebranded themselves as democratic socialist, as with the Party of Democratic Socialism in Germany. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian: ), surname more accurately romanized as Gorbachyov; (born 2 March 1931) is a Russian politician. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... A Communist party is a party which promotes Communism. ... Party of Democratic Socialism is a political party in India; see Party of Democratic Socialism (India) the former name of a German political party; see Left Party (Germany). ...

History

Forerunners and formative influences

Fenner Brockway, a leading British democratic socialist of the Independent Labour Party, wrote in his book Britain's First Socialists: Archibald Fenner Brockway, Baron Brockway (November 1, 1888 - 1988) was a British anti-war activist and politician. ... The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a former political party in the United Kingdom. ...

The Levellers were pioneers of political democracy and the sovereignty of the people; the Agitators were the pioneers of participatory control by the ranks at their workplace; and the Diggers were pioneers of communal ownership, cooperation and egalitarianism. All three equate to democratic socialism. ^[11] The Levellers were a mid 17th century English political movement, who came to prominence during the English Civil Wars. ... Agitator is a term for a person that actively supports some ideology or movement with speeches and especially actions. ... Workers control is participation in the management of factories and other enterprises by the people who work there. ... For other meanings see Diggers (disambiguation) and Levellers (disambiguation) The Diggers were a group begun by Gerrard Winstanley in 1649 which called for a total destruction of the existing social order and replacement with a communistic and agrarian lifestyle based around the precepts of Christian Nationalism, wishing to rid England... This article is about cooperation as used in the social sciences. ... Egalitarianism (derived from the French word égal, meaning equal or level) is a political doctrine that holds that all people should be treated as equals from birth. ...

The tradition of the Diggers and the Levellers was continued in the period described by EP Thompson in The Making of the English Working Class by Jacobin groups like the London Corresponding Society and by polemicists such as Thomas Paine. Their concern for both democracy and social justice marks them out as key precursors of democratic socialism. Edward Palmer Thompson (February 3, 1924 - August 28, 1993), was an English historian, socialist and peace campaigner. ... The Making of the English Working Class is an influential work of English social history, written by E. P. Thompson a notable a New Left historian; it was published in 1963 (revised 1968) by Victor Gollancz Ltd, and later republished at Pelican, becoming an early Open University Set Book. ... In the context of the French Revolution, a Jacobin originally meant a member of the Jacobin Club (1789-1794), but even at that time, the term Jacobins had been popularly applied to all promulgators of extreme revolutionary opinions: for example, Jacobin democracy is synonymous with totalitarian democracy. ... London Corresponding Society; a moderate-radical body concentrating on parliamentary reform in the 1790s. ... For other persons of the same name, see Thomas Paine (disambiguation). ... Social justice refers to the concept of an unjust society that refers to more than just the administration of laws. ...

The term "socialist" was first used in English in the British Cooperative Magazine in 1827^[12] and came to be associated with the followers of Robert Owen, such as the Rochdale Pioneers who founded the co-operative movement. Owen's followers again stressed both participatory democracy and economic socialisation, in the form of consumer co-operatives, credit unions and mutual aid societies. The Chartists similarly combined a working class politics with a call for greater democracy. For other uses, see Robert Owen (disambiguation). ... The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, founded in 1844, is usually considered the first successful co-operative enterprise, forming the basis for the modern co-operative movement. ... A cooperative (also co-operative or co-op) is an association of persons who join together to carry on an economic activity of mutual benefit. ... Participatory democracy is a broadly inclusive term for many kinds of consultative decision making which require consultation on important decisions by those who will carry out the decision. ... A credit union is a co-operative financial institution that is owned, controlled and administered by its members. ... The term mutual aid has multiple meanings: Mutual aid, a tenet of anarchist thought Mutual aid, an agreement between emergency responders Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, a book by anarchist Peter Kropotkin Mutual aid, in social work with groups Category: ... A movement for social and political reform in the United Kingdom during the mid_19th century, Chartism gains its name from the Peoples Charter of 1838, which set out the main aims of the movement. ... The labour movement or labor movement is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better treatment from their employers and political governments, in particular through the implementation of specific laws governing labor relations. ...

Modern democratic socialism

James Keir Hardie was an early democratic socialist, who founded the Independent Labour Party in the United Kingdom

Democratic socialism became a prominent movement at the end of the nineteenth century. In the US, Eugene Debs, one of the most famous American socialists, led a movement centered around democratic socialism and made five bids for President, once in 1900 under the Social Democratic Party and then four more times under the Socialist Party of America. The socialist industrial unionism of Daniel DeLeon in the United States represented another strain of early democratic socialism in this period. It favored a form of government based on industrial unions, but which also sought to establish this government after winning at the ballot box. James Keir Hardie, Leader of the Labour Party This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... James Keir Hardie, Leader of the Labour Party This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... James Keir Hardie (August 15, 1856 - September 26, 1915) was a Scottish born socialist and labour leader, and the first Labour MP to be elected to the UK parliament. ... The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a former political party in the United Kingdom. ... May refer to the politcal leader Eugene_V._Debs May also be in reference to a a debutante ball, a formal party undertaken by the leaving members of second-level schools in Ireland, most often in the month of August or September. ... The Social Democratic Party (SDP) was a short-lived political party in the United States and a predecessor to the Socialist Party of America. ... The Socialist Party of America (SPA) is a socialist political party in the United States. ... Daniel De Leon (December 14, 1852 – May 11, 1914) was born in Curaçao. ...

In Britain, the democratic socialist tradition was represented in particular by the William Morris' Socialist League (UK) in the 1880s and by the Independent Labour Party (ILP) founded by Keir Hardie in the 1890s, of which George Orwell would later be a prominent member. This page is about William Morris, the writer, designer and socialist. ... This article is about the Socialist League groups which have existed in the United Kingdom. ... The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a former political party in the United Kingdom. ... James Keir Hardie (15 August 1856 - 26 September 1915) was a Scottish socialist and labour leader, and one of the first two Labour Party Members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the UK Parliament after the establishment of the Labour Party. ... Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 [1] [2] – 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. ...

In Europe, many democratic socialist parties were united in the International Working Union of Socialist Parties (the "Two and a Half International") in the early 1920s and in the London Bureau (the "Three and a Half International") in the 1930s. These internationals sought to steer a course between the social democrats of the Second International, who were seen as insufficiently socialist (and had been compromised by their support for World War I), and the perceived anti-democratic Third International. The key movements within the Two and a Half International were the ILP and the Austromarxists, and the main forces in the Three and a Half International were the ILP and the POUM. The International Working Union of Socialist Parties (also known as 2½ International or the Vienna International) was an international organization for cooperation of socialists. ... The International Revolutionary Marxist Centre was an international association of left-socialist parties. ... The phrase Second International has two meanings: For the international association of socialist parties of the late 19th century, see Second International (politics) and a successor organization, the Socialist International For one of the Merriam-Webster dictionaries of American English, see Websters New International Dictionary, Second Edition This is... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... The term Third International has two well-established meanings: For the unabridged dictionary, see Websters Third New International Dictionary. ... Austromarxism was the left socialist ideology pursued by the Social Democratic Workers Party of Austria during the late decades of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the Austrian First Republic (1918-1934). ... The Workers Party of Marxist Unification (POUM, Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista) was a Spanish political party around the time of the Spanish Civil War. ...

In America, a similar tradition continued to flourish in Debs' Socialist Party of America, especially under the leadership of Norman Thomas. The Socialist Party of America (SPA) is a socialist political party in the United States. ... Norman Thomas Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 - December 19, 1968) was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America. ...

In the same period, the guild socialism of G. D. H. Cole in the early 1920s was a conscious attempt to envision a socialist alternative to Soviet-style authoritarianism, while council communism articulated democratic socialist positions in several respects, notably through renouncing the vanguard role of the revolutionary party and holding that the system of the Soviet Union was not authentically socialist. Guild socialism was a British political movement in the 1890s-1920s that wanted to give each local workplace sovereignity. ... George Douglas Howard Cole (September 25, 1889 - January 14, 1959) was an English journalist and economist, closely associated with the development of Fabianism. ... Forms of government Part of the Politics series Politics Portal This box:      This article applies to political and organizational ideologies. ... Council communism is a Radical Left movement originating in Germany and the Netherlands in the 1920s. ... A vanguard party is a political party or grassroot organization at the forefront of a mass action, movement, or revolution. ...

During India's freedom movement, many figures on the left of the Indian National Congress organized themselves as the Congress Socialist Party. Their politics, and those of the early and intermediate periods of JP Narayan's career, combined a commitment to the socialist transformation of society with a principled opposition to the one-party authoritarianism they perceived in the Stalinist revolutionary model. The Indian Independence Movement was a series of revolutions empowered by the people of India put forth to battle the British Empire for complete political independence, beginning with the Rebellion of 1857. ... Indian National Congress (also known as the Congress Party and abbreviated INC) is a major political party in India. ... The Congress Socialist Party was founded in 1934 as a socialist caucus within the Indian National Congress. ... Jayaprakash Narayan (October 11, 1902 - October 8, 1979), widely known as JP, was an Indian freedom fighter and political leader. ... Stalinism is a brand of political theory, and the political and economic system implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union. ...

The folkesocialisme or people's socialism that emerged as a vital current of the left in Scandinavia beginning in the 1950s could be characterized as a democratic socialism in the same vein. Popular Socialism (Danish: Folkesocialisme) is a distinct Scandinavian socialist current. ... For other uses, see Scandinavia (disambiguation). ...

Democratic socialism today

There was a strong current of democratic socialism in the politics of the New Left in much of Europe and North America during the 1960s. The classic Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society combined a stringent critique of the Stalinist model with calls for a democratic socialist reconstruction of society. In 1973, Michael Harrington and Irving Howe formed the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, which articulated a strong democratic socialist message, while a smaller faction associated with peace activist David McReynolds formed the Socialist Party USA. In the early 1980s, the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee merged with the New American Movement, an organization of New Left veterans, forming Democratic Socialists of America. The New Left is a term used in different countries to describe left-wing movements that occurred in the 1960s and 1970s. ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... North America North America is a continent[1] in the Earths northern hemisphere and (chiefly) western hemisphere. ... The Port Huron Statement is the manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), written primarily by Tom Hayden, then the Field Secretary of SDS, and completed on June 15, 1962 at an SDS convention in Port Huron, Michigan. ... SDS logo The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was, historically, a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main iconic representations of the countrys New Left. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Irving Howe (1920 – 1993), was born Irving Horenstein in New York, the son of immigrants who ran a small grocery store that went out of business during the Great Depression. ... The Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC) was founded in 1973 by the bulk of those members of the Socialist Party of America who opposed the partys takeover by the followers of Max Shachtman. ... David McReynolds David McReynolds (born October 25, 1929) is an American socialist politician. ... The Socialist Party USA (SP USA) is one of the heirs to the Socialist Party of America of Eugene V. Debs and Norman Thomas. ... The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ... The New American Movement (NAM) was founded in 1971 by a group of leaders of opposition to the Vietnam War to serve as a forum for discussing where and how to redirect their activities. ... Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is the largest socialist organization in the United States and the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International, a federation of socialist, social democratic and labour parties and organizations. ...

In the British Labour Party, the term democratic socialist was used historically by those who identified with the tradition represented by the ILP: the "soft left" of non-Marxist socialists around Tribune magazine (e.g. Michael Foot) and some of the "hard left" in the Campaign Group around Tony Benn. The Campaign Group, along with the extra-Labour Party Socialist Society (led by Raymond Williams and others) formed the Socialist Movement in 1987, which now produces the magazine Red Pepper. The Labour Party is a centre-left or social democratic political party in Britain (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... The soft left was the name given to the more moderate left wing forces in the British Labour Party in the 1980s. ... Tribune is a democratic socialist weekly, currently a magazine though in the past more often a newspaper, published in London. ... Michael Mackintosh Foot (born 23 July 1913) is an English politician and writer. ... Far left is a vague term used to refer to people or ideas falling into the general category of left wing which the speaker considers to be extreme. ... The Socialist Campaign Group is a left wing grouping of Labour Party Members of Parliament in the UK. The group is generally Eurosceptic and has many socially conservative members. ... Anthony Tony Neil Wedgwood Benn (born 3 April 1925), formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British socialist politician. ... A Socialist Society is a membership organization which is affiliated to the Labour Party. ... Raymond Henry Williams (31 August 1921 - 26 January 1988) was a Welsh academic, novelist and critic. ... For information on mainstream political parties using the term Socialist, see Social democracy and Democratic socialism,For the governments of the USSR, the PRC, and others, see: Communist state, Other variants of Socialism include Marxism, Communism, and Libertarian Socialism. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... Red Pepper is an independent ‘red, green and radical’ magazine based in the UK. Origins Red Pepper was founded by the Socialist Movement – an independent left-wing grouping that grew out of a series of large conferences held in Chesterfield after the defeat of Britain’s miners’ strike. ...

Today in Germany there is a more left wing party called the "Party of Democratic Socialists" which takes the label of democratic socialism, while another more centrist party called the "Social Democratic Party of Germany" is the leading left wing German party that has held government. The British Labour party is a "democratic socialist party" according to its constitution.^[13] Both the German SPD and British Labour party belong to the Party of European Socialists grouping in the European Parliament. The Left Party. ... SPD redirects here. ... The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. ... The Party of European Socialists (PES) is a European political party whose members are 33 social democratic, socialist and labour parties of the European Union member states as well as Norway. ... Established 1952, as the Common Assembly President Hans-Gert Pöttering (EPP) Since 16 January 2007 Vice-Presidents 14 Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou (EPP) Alejo Vidal-Quadras (EPP) Gérard Onesta (Greens – EFA) Edward McMillan-Scott (ED) Mario Mauro (EPP) Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez (PES) Luigi Cocilovo (ALDE) Mechtild...

In Latin America there has been a dramatic rise in support for democratic socialism since the 1998 election of Hugo Chavez as president of Venezuela. In Venezuela the Bolivarian Revolution was launched with the goal of redistributing wealth from rich to poor and improve living standards for the nation's impoverished via the government's numerous widespread Bolivarian Missions. There have been noticeable improvements in areas such as housing, wage levels, literacy, education opportunities and healthcare availability; however like the rest of Latin America a large gap between a rich minority and an extremely poor majority continues to exist. Bolivians elected their nation's first indigenous president, another democratic socialist and a close ally of Venezuela, named Evo Morales in 2005. Morales ran for office on an agenda centered around nationalization of the oil industry and protection of the nation's coca industry. Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... President Hugo Chávez Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (born July 28, 1954) has been the President of Venezuela since 1999. ... The Bolivarian Revolution refers to a mass social movement and political process in Venezuela. ... The Bolivarian Missions are a series of social justice, social welfare, anti-poverty, educational, electoral and military recruiting programs implemented under the administration of the current Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. ... Democratic socialism is a political movement propagating the ideals of socialism within the framework of a parliamentary democracy. ... Juan Evo Morales Ayma (born October 26, 1959 in Orinoca, Oruro), popularly known as Evo (IPA: ), is the President of Bolivia, and has been declared the countrys first indigenous head of state since the Spanish Conquest over 470 years ago. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In Nicaragua the Sandinistas made an electoral come back in 2006, this being the second time their leader, Daniel Ortega has been elected president of Nicaragua (the other being in 1984). The Sandinistas have also promised a greater redistribution of wealth to those in poverty. Peru also saw the strong performance of a leftwing candidate named Ollanta Humala in 2006 who came in second in the Presidential elections to former president and centre-left social democrat, Alan Garcia. Sandinista! is also the name of a popular music album by The Clash. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... José Daniel Ortega Saavedra (born 11 November 1945) is the current President of Nicaragua. ... This article is about the President of Nicaragua, for the 2006 presidential election results see: Nicaraguan general election, 2006 History of Nicaragua Presidentes de Nicaragua Categories: | ... This article is about the year. ... Ollanta Moisés Humala Tasso Uñña (born June 26, 1963) is a Peruvian left-leaning nationalist politician. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Geographic distribution of Second Round votes, by winning candidate. ... In politics, the term centre-left is commonly used to describe and denote political parties or organisations that stretch from the centre to the left or are moderately left-wing, as opposed to extreme left wing beliefs such as communism. ... Social democracy is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means. ... Alan Garc rez (born May 23, 1949 in Lima) was President of Peru from 1985 to 1990. ...

Ecuador, Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina have also seen the elections of centre-left governments that while not being socialist in nature have been relatively supportive of Hugo Chavez and unsupportive of globalization. In politics, the term centre-left is commonly used to describe and denote political parties or organisations that stretch from the centre to the left or are moderately left-wing, as opposed to extreme left wing beliefs such as communism. ... A KFC franchise in Kuwait. ...

See also

• Democratic Socialist Party
• Differences between Democratic Socialism and Social Democracy
• List of democratic socialist parties and organizations
• Libertarian socialism
• Luxemburgism
• Neosocialism
• Participatory democracy
• Sewer Socialism
• Social democracy
• Soviet democracy
• Third camp
• Third way
• Yellow socialism

There are several political parties called the Democratic Socialist Party: Democratic Socialist Party (Australia) Democratic Socialist Party (Japan) Democratic Socialist Party (Prabodh Chandra) (India) Loktantrik Samajwadi Party (India) Party of Democratic Socialism (India) - not to be confused with the above parties Party of Democratic Socialism Germany See also: Democratic Party... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This is a list of parties and organizations that are either explicitly democratic socialist or include significant numbers of democratic socialist members. ... Libertarian socialism is a group of political philosophies that aim to create a society without political, economic or social hierarchies - a society in which all violent or coercive institutions would be dissolved, and in their place every person would have free, equal access to tools of information and production, or... Luxemburgism (also written Luxembourgism) is a specific revolutionary theory within communism, based on the writings of Rosa Luxemburg. ... Neosocialism (also hyphenated as neo-socialism) is a term used to describe any one of a wide variety of left-wing political movements that are considered socialist and have developed recently. ... Participatory democracy is a broadly inclusive term for many kinds of consultative decision making which require consultation on important decisions by those who will carry out the decision. ... Sewer Socialism was a Socialist movement that began in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and existed from around 1892 to 1940. ... Social democracy is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means. ... For the Soviet republics of the Soviet Union, see Republics of the Soviet Union. ... The third camp, also known as third camp socialism or third camp Trotskyism, is a branch of Trotskyism which aims to oppose both capitalism and Stalinism by supporting the organised working class as a third camp. This approach was developed by Max Shachtman and is one of the major components... Third way can refer to: The Third Way, an economic and political idea that positions itself between democratic socialism and laissez-faire capitalism, combining the ordoliberal social market with neo-liberalism. ... Yellow socialism was the name applied to a form of revisionist socialism which became prominent in the early twentieth century prior to World War I, as an alternative to Marxism (sometimes called red socialism). Yellow socialists rejected class struggle, the general strike and revolutionary socialism in general. ...

Notes

Peter Gerald Hain PC MP (born February 16, 1950, Nairobi, Kenya) is a British Labour Party politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Secretary of State for Wales. ... Charles Anthony Raven Crosland (29 August 1918 - 19 February 1977) was a member of the Labour Party and an important socialist theorist. ... Peter Gerald Hain PC MP (born February 16, 1950, Nairobi, Kenya) is a British Labour Party politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Secretary of State for Wales. ...

References

• Donald F. Busky, Democratic Socialism: A Global Survey ISBN 0-275-96886-3

External links

• The Socialist International
• List of Leftist Socialists and Reform Communists
• Joseph Schwartz and Jason Schulman Towards Freedom: The Theory and Practice of Democratic Socialism
• Democratic Socialism in India Posters and Press Clips
• Albert Einstein: Why Socialism?
• What is democratic socialism?