Values Of Social Democracy

The ideology closest to my position on the political compass, and the one I think is most suited for 21st century societies in general, and Egypt’s social, political and economic climate in particular is social democracy.

Social democracy is an ideology that promotes social justice and increased political and social participation of all classes. It is an ideology that has its roots in Marxism but that has since departed to different, sometimes even conflicting stances, than these of Marxism and traditional socialism. The political philosophy behind social democracy can be divided into two main parts: the values, and the mechanism that should be employed to both achieve and uphold those values. The main values of social democracy are freedom,

They believe in the historical materialistic view, for the most part, which states that ideas do not form social situation but rather it is social circumstances such as technology and economy that form ideas and shape them. This means that interests are the key motivator behind ideologies. People’s interpretations of values such as freedom and equality will be largely consistent with their interests. Therefore, the only way to avoid conflict is through the three values. For example, if people believe that their individual freedom can be reached through society’s progress, they will mostly work through society’s

They refuse nationalization as they believe it to be largely inefficient. They, similarly, disagree with planned economies as they are unable to meet the different desires of different people, making them inefficient and dangerous to individualism as a freedom and a right. On the other hand, they are also critical of market economies. In their de-regularized form, market economies run the risk of letting capital interests dominate over other interests which might be critical to society. Their approach is a “social market economy”, a mixed economy that gives democracy over market. Thus allowing democracy to regulate the market through a set framework of legislations such as environmental legislations and working hours legislations. Under that framework, the market is mostly free, allowing private ownership for