While Alliance implodes, Broadbent and Morton bring together disparate left thinkers and activists to talk convergence. Opening Address for the Conference on The Future of Social Democracy in Canada . Social democracy provides the best and most successful alternative to liberal democratic capitalism for ordinary people all over the world. Its evolution is best understood as an amalgam of our heritage of civil and political rights with new economic, social and cultural rights.
Social democrats affirm the primacy of democracy over the market.
We want a market economy, not a market society. Now social democrats need to expand and implement those rights, says Daniel Turp. Canadians still favour social democratic ideas despite spin to contrary - Ariel Troster Polling fails to support conventional wisdom that public has moved to the right. You can't have one without the other. Forever young Jim Kempkes ' animated vision of a political convergence between young and experienced activists.