Social democracy

Photo of Eduard Bernstein, one of the founders of modern social democracy.

Social democracy is a strain of liberalism that, in its current meaning, seeks to merely modify parameters within which capital operates with the aim of "humanising" or "taming" capitalism. Social democracy pursues the increasing of welfare of working people through social programs. However, social democracy has gone through multiple meanings, the oldest of which was revolutionary.

See also

• Social liberalism
• Democratic socialism
• Reformism
• Revisionism