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Social democracy has its roots in Marxism. But it has distanced itself from Marxism. In the 18th century and the first decades of the 20th century, social democracy was a broader movement that included Marxists. In 1863, the German social democratic party SPD was founded. It was one of the first Marxist parties. The SPD was co-founded by August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht. Bebel believed that socialism could be achieved through legislation rather than bloody revolution. In 1871 election, German Social Democrats won 2 seats. In the 1912 election, the SPD becomes the largest party in Germany. Social democracy begins to change after Eduard Bernstein's "The Preconditions of Socialism and The Tasks of Social Democracy". Unlike Marxism, he believed that capitalism was not doomed and that it could be used to improve workers' conditions. According to him, socialism could be achieved by electing socialist representatives.  When German dictator Hitler came to power in 1933, th...

In the European Parliament elections held on 7-9 June, far-right parties increased their votes. In France, one of the most important countries in Europe, the increase was more "dramatic". The far-right Le Pen's party, the RN (31%), doubled its lead over the Besoin d'Europe coalition (14%), which includes President Macron's Renaissance party, while the social democratic Socialist Party came third (13.8%). With the far-right RN winning by a large margin, Macron decided to call early elections for the lower house of parliament, the national assembly. The first round of elections will be held tomorrow and the second on 7 July. However, he is taking a serious risk with this move. Upon this decision, all leftist parties, from the social democratic Socialist Party to the Communist Party, decided to enter the elections jointly under the name Nouveau Populaire Front (New Popular Front). The centre-right LR (Republicans), formerly one of the two largest parties (with the So...

  Ukraine lost some towns and villages to the Russians after the US House of Representatives did not approve the budget that included military aid to Ukraine. Ukraine is running out of military equipment day by day. European countries are sending some military aid to Ukraine, but it's not enough to liberate the Russian-occupied territories. Both sides are maintaining the status quo on the battlefield. And in the US elections in November, Donald Trump, the isolationist ex-president of the US, may win. If he wins, he has said he will not support Ukraine and will "stop the war on day one". The latest developments on the battlefield are slightly negative for Ukraine and slightly positive for Russia. Then French President Macron said that they could send soldiers to Ukraine to help them. But will sending soldiers help Ukraine? The latest developments in battlefield (Click to see). The technological status of an army is more important than manpower in modern times. Russia has m...

     Reasons of the climate change. COP 28 summit is over. But it's not effective  for curtailing climate change. Why? Let's see.  I'm not going to write summit start to end. To summarize, It has started with too many scandals, although some improvement achieved. 100 states has supported phasing out fossil fuels, fossil fuel firstly agreed as a source of climate change first time in final agreement in COP summits. But I don't think this is enough. Firstly, I's been used and it'll continued to use by petrol states and petrol companies for greenwashing. Secondly, It's only advisory. Some agreements can be reached between states, but they are not checked whether compliance is made or not and no punishment for violator states. There is need a check mechanism for countries, to control they are doing what they have promised. Third problem is the final agreement negotiations. Only one country can stop final agreement negotiations for their own ambitions. Also, the ...

The War On October 7th, Hamas militants attacked from Gaza to civilian Israelis. They murdered 1323+ Israelis and 248 people was kidnapped, 7,266+ wounded. After this unlawful and terroristic attack, Israel security forces started a counter-attack. Of course Israel have a right to protect and counter the attacks but they started bombing innocent civilian Palestinians far from Hamas. 14,854+ Palestinian civilians has killed since the Israel's counter attack. Especially women, children and UN workers has killed. On October 27th, Israel started ground military operation. Like UN, organisations was said this ground operation will be a bloodshed and Hamas have a dozens of tunnels on the underground. Before the operation, Israel wanted from Palestinian people to evacuate the east of the Gaza. Dozens of Palestinians flew to the west of Gaza. Israel forces encircled Hamas militants on the east side of Gaza. On 24th November, belligerents agreed a ceasefire meditating with Qatar.  The cease...

 Yesterday, Netherlands had an election. It has a suprising outcome. Far right, Geert Wilders's party PVV has suprisingly came first (%23,6). Green Left(GL) and Labour Party(PvdA) alliance(GL/PvdA) came second, %15,5. Their leader is Timmermans, former EU bureaucrat. VVD, Rutte's party who is the prime minister of the Netherlands for 15 years, came third, %15,2. Their leader is Yeşilgöz who is Turkiye-born immigrant. NSC, which is founded by ex-VVD member and ex-welfare minister Omtzigt, who resigned after welfare scandal. His party got 12,8 percent of vote. How it will effect the Netherlands and the EU? Effects to the Netherlands and the EU After Wilders's victory intensifies, far-right leaders all over the Europe congratulated him and his party PVV. In France, main opposition RN leader Le Pen, German far right party AfD and other far right parties and figures congratulated him. For PVV, immigration is needs to be curtailed. They're anti-EU, have xenophobic goals. It...