# Capitalism and Social Democracy

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- Authors: [Adam Przeworski](https://www.bookquiver.com/adam-przeworski)
- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN: 978-05-2133-656-7
- Pages: 280
- Published: 1986-12-26
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

This is a study of the choices faced by socialist movements as they developed within capitalist societies. Professor Przeworski examines the three principal choices confronted by socialism: whether to work through elections; whether to rely exclusively on the working class; and whether to try to reform or abolish capitalism. He brings to his analysis a number of abstract models of political and economic structure, and illustrates the issues in the context of historical events, tracing the development of socialist strategies since the mid-nineteenth century. Several of the conclusions are novel and provocative. Professor Przeworski argues that economic issues cannot justify a socialist programme, and that the workers had good reasons to struggle for the improvement of capitalism. Therefore, the project of a socialist transformation, and the fight for economic advancement, were separate historical phenomena.