social democratn.adj.
/ˌsəʊʃl ˈdɛməkrat/, U.S. /ˌsoʊʃ(ə)l ˈdɛməˌkræt/ A. n.
An advocate or supporter of social democracy; spec. a member of a political party that advocates social democracy.Frequently in the names of political parties. Many of these parties followed revolutionary communist principles, reflecting the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party. After the ideological split within this party (see Menshevik n.) the term was mostly used to designate parties that pursued the achievement of socialist government through democratic means. In modern use most social democrats have abandoned any commitment to Marxism, and tend to be liberal democratic parties that retain a commitment to social reform.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > types of party generally (in various countries) > members of
national1792
social democrat1848
Labourist1884
Labourite1887
progressist1890
progressive1892
greens1978
society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > socialism > [noun] > other types of socialism > adherents of
Saint-Simonist1829
Saint-Simonian1831
Saint-Simonite1831
Christian Socialist1838
societarian1842
democratic socialist1848
social democrat1848
utopian socialist1849
scientific socialist1852
state socialist1879
champagne socialist1906
guild socialist1913
state capitalist1915
maximalist1918
society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British party politics > [noun] > other British parties > member of
baronist1611
leveller1644
grumbletonianc1690
Liberal Democrat1849
S.D.F.er1936
social democrat1981
1848 Caledonian Mercury 23 Nov. 1/7 Two democratic banquets were given last night—the one was that of the ‘Social and Democratic Press’, the other of the ‘Female Social Democrats’.
1869 E. Oswald tr. C. Buerkli Direct Legislation by People 8 What the Social democrats want is that the people should govern themselves, for the advantage of all, by taking legislation into their own hands.
1899 Daily News 19 July 5/5 The Clericals did not shrink from concluding a regular pact with the Social Democrats.
1918 E. P. Stebbing From Czar to Bolshevik iii. 25 The Social Democrats consisted chiefly of Bolsheviks with a smaller Menshevik group. The Social Revolutionaries were subdivided into Maximalists and Minimalists.
1947 Partisan Rev. 14 312 Barea was one of those gray murky middle-class Social Democrats who made of his adherence a means of avoiding rather than of engaging in political thought.
1974 tr. A. Snieckus Soviet Lithuania 13 During the revolution, increasing numbers of Lithuanian Social-Democrats urged that their party unite with the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party.
1981 Times 26 Mar. 14/8 We have gained the sympathy of a quarter of Britain's voters, and between a third and two-fifths if Social Democrats fight together with Liberals.
2002 A. Feenberg Transforming Technol. (rev. ed.) ii. 40 Stalinists and social democrats alike inherited a theory that emphasized the evils of maldistribution, aggravated by capitalist administration of the economy.
B. adj.
That supports or advocates social democracy; spec. designating any of various political parties or movements that support or advocate social democracy; of or relating to these.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > socialism > [adjective] > other types of socialism
societarian1822
Saint-Simonian1830
Saint-Simonite1831
democratic socialist1848
social democratic1848
social democratic1849
social democratic1850
internationalist1871
social democrat1874
state socialist1882
utopian socialist1884
scientific socialist1887
state-capitalistic1896
revisionist1903
state capitalist1904
liberal1955
1874 Reynolds's Newspaper 20 Dec. 2/5 The Reichstag declined to intervene to effect any liberation of the dangerous leaders of the dreaded Social Democrat party.
1893 Economist 24 June 752/2 They have been crushed by various causes, one being the increase of the Social Democrat vote.
1944 B. H. M. Vlekke Nusantara xv. 341 The Social Democrat Club of Semarang decided to take the name Communist Party of the Indies.
1965 New Statesman 14 May 753/2 A preference for the Social Democrat stronghold [sc. Berlin] over the Christian Democrat capital [sc. Bonn].
2008 J. Gledhill & C. King in S. L. Wolchik & J. L. Curry Central & East European Polit. xiv. 326 Băsescu took the presidential post in the second round of voting, defeating the favored Social Democrat candidate, Adrian Năstase.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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