Sentences with phrase «democratic socialist reform»

Further, a tragic example was Salvador Allende who, in Victor Figueroa - Clark's account, despite his long political experience, miscalculated the chances of democratic socialist reform in Chile.

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Philip Blonde takes an almost Democratic Republican ideology towards public service reform in advocating using social entreprises to manage schools, hospitals, sure start centres etc, which would be democratically connected to all other schools etc through out the country and collectively elect the central management who allocate budget spending to each and every school etc. http://www.respublica.org.uk/publications/ownership-state It sounds more like a radical libertarian socialist solution to public services than a free market conservative solution to public services.

Breaking the mould with electoral reform would have transformed the political landscape, allowing a socialist and a social democratic party, a centre - right pro-EU Tory party and a hard - right faction for the likes of John Redwood and Liam Fox.

Fliedner ran in the 2017 Brooklyn Democratic primary as a member of the Democratic Socialists of America on a platform of criminal justice reform, an end to broken windows policing, and the shutdown of Rikers Island, issues shared more or less by his five competitors.

Possibly most of the «socialists» within the Labour Party — like even Tony Benn and Jeremy Corbyn — not being Socialist Workers Party style socialists, did not leave the Party and instead grudgingly accepted our dilution to social democracy for the main reason that pure socialism sans in - govt would remain a mere theory and would be worse than practical social democratic reforms / reliefs whilst in power -LRB--- and particularly bebeficial / necessary after a prolonged Thatcherite damage to our society!

Which brings me to the question: do you agree with what I said in my comment at # 9, i.e. that a program of reforming capitalism in a social democratic / socialist direction will not succeed in addressing global warming unless it contains a substantial suite of policies specifically aimed at addressing that problem.

Again, this is why, in my view, a focus on socialist, or social democratic, reform, as the primary means to address climate change, is essentially a distraction.