The Success of Social Democracy

Making the case for why social democracy should be the system to implement and not freewheeling capitalism.

A classic poster for the Norwegian Labour Party. A Social Democratic Party which has governed Norway for most of the modern era.

I am both a political idealist and pragmatist. I want us all to try brave new ideas while at the same time be humble enough to accept that those ideas may in fact never work out.

At the same time I am a pragmatist. I believe in learning from what has worked and what has not worked. When I have strong faith in social democracy as a political and economic system, it is because I have grown up in such a system (Norway) and seen with my own eyes that it works. Personal experience is of course one thing. But I have also spent a lot of time pouring over statistics, looking at history and comparing with other countries I have visited and studied.

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