Status Updates From One Hundred Years of Socialism

This book, which I guess is supposed to make me more sympathetic to social democratic parties, is doing the opposite. Some of these case studies are plain ridiculous with just how easily they capitulate to opposition.

Very interesting chapter about the complex relationship between socialist activism and feminism

Social democracy only really being "radical" in marginal states like Sweden or Austria during the Cold war and actively opposed everywhere else? Not super surprising.

Fascinating so far... But these European social democratic parties, Jesus Christ do they really not have any idea of how to even appear competent, do they? Sassoon seems to have done his homework with the research on the Italian, PCI in particular... Great analysis and marshalling of sources.

A lot of facepalming because of how ineffective these parties have been in most places in Western Europe