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Most of Europe is varying degrees of Social Democracy. We pretend we have conservatives, socialists, “climatists”? communists, neoliberals, populists and so on, but for the most parts it’s all just Social Democratic parties with a flavour.



As far as I can tell, In the not so distant past, you were either in favour of rule by the monarch and the aristocracy or you were a Liberal. Pretty much every party in a modern democracy is a flavour of Liberal. Its only because liberalism comprehensively won that we find it useful to separate out the different strands.


We had a lot of worker reforms when people got fed up later which formed very strong unions which then lead to the modern social democratic ways.


Not to forget farmers. Which technically are often right-wing as land owners, but with different goals that industrialist.




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