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..historically speaking social-democratic politics arose from marxism, but differed in that the social-democratic movement tried to use paliamentary means to move towards socialism, rather than a revolutionary means.
Eventually the notion of a social-class based political movement and a program of eventually achieving socialism was dropped (such as via the German SPDs Bad Godesburg program) and the social-democratic partys became more about ameliorating and reforming capitalism via governmental means, rather than overthrowing it or replacing it.
So, sure, there is a historical difference between the Democrats and the Europan social-democrats, but Im wondering if we could say they both had similar policy agendas..that, for a time, the liberal wing of the Democrats was a "de facto" social-democratic movement.
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