Kenworthy argues that capitalist social democracy is much better for our future than simple unregulated capitalism, or liberal capitalism in even its most progressive form, as well as superior to the essentially—nowhere concretely exemplified-- theoretical “democratic socialism.” The argument with regard to non-social democratic varieties of capitalism is very compelling because of Kenworthy’s powerful mobilization of evidence from advanced capitalist case– even stronger than the made by Kenworthy’s similar argument in his 2019 “Social Democratic Capitalism.” The argument for the superiority of social democracy over democratic socialism is less compelling because of the absence of empirical cases, past or current, of democratic socialism for comparison. However, Kenworthy forcefully argues that Nordic capitalist social democratic policy has achieved nearly everything to which contemporary democratic socialists have aspired.
Kenworthy's thesis is limited by inattention to the political preconditions for the successful realizations of social policy outcomes and its social democratic drivers, conditions like the politically fruitful interwar emergence of strong labor unions well described by Luebbert (l99l), and the robustness or fragility of 21st century survival of democracy, after all a necessary component of social democracy well described by McCoy, et al. (2018) However, the Kenworthy's project is focused on demonstrating viability of the social democratic project given the capability of social democratic actors to implement social democratic policy and policy outcomes, not on the emergence and robustness of these actors, couple of other stories. On social democracy as a realizable optima Kenworthy can’t be beat?
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