social democracy

Definitions of social democracy
  1. noun
    the belief in a gradual transition from capitalism to socialism by democratic means
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    type of:
    ideology, political orientation, political theory
    an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation
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"First They Came for the Communists"

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