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Socdem parties in the west justify the continued existence of capitalism through the canard of reform and welfare, and to realize their ambitions they betray socialists and leftists to the state though security mongering
Socdem economic policy also necessitates the continued existence of the profit motive in scaled economies, which means socdems have to feed someone to the grinder, almost always foreign non-white people, which is why countless socdem parties embrace neoconservative policies and hyber-nationalistic jingoism as party platforms, which creates cover and domestic support for extractive and unfair trade practices with poorer countries. The primary directive of all socdem parties is to transfer the social costs of capitalism to foreign markets
The original generation of socdems justified this "moderate fascism" through the claim that reforming capitalism would somehow transform it's incentive structure, lead to national unity and trigger the evolution of capitalism into post-capitalist socialism
That belief has completely died out and modern iterations of socdems are distinctly post-Keynesian and believe capitalism to be an eternal facet of human existence, despite the world ending crises modern capitalism is generating