Capitalism and Social Democracy

Abstract

Cover -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Social Democracy as a Historical Phenomenon -- The Decision to Participate -- Democratic Capitalism and Political Participation -- Electoral Participation and Class Organization -- The Promise of Elections -- Social Democracy and the Working Class -- The Electoral Dilemma -- Reform and Revolution -- Economic Projects and Political Realities -- The Compromise -- The Abandonment of Reformism -- Economic Bases of Class Compromise -- Social Democracy and Socialism -- Proletariat into a Class: The Process of Class Formation -- Introduction -- Scientific Socialism as of 1890 -- Who Are the "Proletarians"? -- Proletarianization and Class Structure -- And Where to Fit the "Middle Class"? -- The Process of Class Formation -- Democratic Capitalism and the Organization of Workers as a Class -- Conflicts About Class -- Surplus Labor and the "Middle Class" -- Conclusion -- Postscript: Methodological Individualism and the Concept of Class -- Party Strategy, Class Organization, and Individual Voting -- Political Parties and the Voting Behavior of Individuals -- The Dilemma of Class-Based Parties -- The Electoral Trade-Off -- Party Strategies and Their Consequences -- Choice and Necessity -- Are Socialist Leaders Vote-Maximizers? -- Historical Patterns of Class Voting -- Further Evidence -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Material Bases of Consent -- Introduction -- Capitalism, Hegemony, and Democracy -- Reproduction of Consent of Wage-Earners -- Accumulation and Legitimation -- Conjunctures and Crises -- Breakdown of Consent and Force -- Material Interests, Class Compromise, and the State -- Introduction -- The Problem Defined -- The Form of Class Compromise -- Conditions of Class Compromise -- Beyond Capitalism -- Class Conflict and the State -- Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads.