The session will discuss the role and demise of social democracy, the accommodation of the labour movement with capitalism and the future prospects of this truce.

Suggested background reading below. All welcome: email uncaptiveminds@gmail.com for more info.A modern defence of social democracy against Marxism and socialism by Sheri Berman

http://www.ces.fas.harvard.edu/conferences/left/left_papers/berman.pdf

Aufheben  Collective on the retreat of social democracy in mediating the relationship between labour and capital

http://libcom.org/library/social-democracy-1-aufheben-7

Magnus Ryner – An obituary for the Third Way

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-04-27-ryner-en.html