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Marx on primal accumulation

Still fits the global south

And Lenin on development of capitalism in Russia thickens the conception

As always Marx and Lenin must be read with diamat glasses on

Yes Hegels science of logic

Nothing better then

Snatching

the march Of social reality

From the very heart

of spooky German

Metaphysics

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I don't think you've mentioned Sheri Berman (political science, Barnard College) before. She basically wrote the books on the history/fate of European social democracy. Very useful, if sometimes gets to feel like TMI for many (most?) of us.

https://sheriberman.netlify.app/books

--Rob Chametzky

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I've been directed to Schorske's book on the SPD.

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Max, thanks again, now I don't feel so bad when I'm accused of being a Bernsteinist. I'm certainly a constitutionalist and some other ists. I have 30,000+ words written on Are You a Democratic Socialist? What Kind of Democratic Socialist are You? But work halted 10/07/03. You are making me want to resume this work.

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Yes, Schorske is a (the?) classic on German SDP, but, as with classics, it's now pretty old, significantly so wrt Berman's works, and it's narrower in focus. She does some serious comparisons among social democracies. But if all you have is lots of extra time, why not?

--RC

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What is the best one available?

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Fair question. I read them all kind of at once--serially, but in a pile--so it's kind of hard to

keep it all straight. Except that the third one is not about social democracy but rather just

democracy. Good stuff, but different. I guess the second one, "Primacy of politics" is where to start. If you like it (and why not, I say), then give the first a shot--it has lots of detail about the Swedish and German social dems and why/how they had different trajectories/programs/success.

For one thing, Sweden was not the home of socialism--kind of a fringe player/place, which was

of help in developing its own path. Plus, who reads Swedish?

--RC

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