Moment of Truth for Social Democracy

The coming years, the turn of this millennium, will be crucial for the left in western Europe. The way in which capital tackles the current structural crisis, growing unemployment, the open attack on the welfare state present a problem for social democracy, taken here in its now accepted definition: the reformist management of capitalist society. The message for today is plain. There is to be no more fooling with "capitalism with a human face." There is now no room for reformist management.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website

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