List of social democrats

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Citations

  1. ↑ Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (Aringnar Anna).
  2. ↑ Phillips 2005.
  3. ↑ La República 2007.
  4. ↑ Björkman, Manns & Sima 1973, pp. 176–178.
  5. ↑ Bernstein 1907; Steger 1997; Bernstein 2004; Marxists Internet Archive: "Originally a collaborator of Engels, Eduard Bernstein became the foremost theoretician of revisionism, the theoretical expression of the growing reformism within German and international Social Democracy at the end of the 19th century."
  6. ↑ Lange 2020.
  7. ↑ Bogdanor 1985, p. 49.
  8. ↑ Sosyal Demokrat Dergi 2016; İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi 2019.
  9. ↑ Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (Muthuvel Karunanidhi).
  10. ↑ Sunkara 2020.
  11. ↑ Chopra & Young 2019.
  12. ↑ Draper 1966, "Chapter 7: The "Revisionist" Facade"; Sunkara 2020.
  13. ↑ Kreisky 2000, p. 378; Wolinetz 2008, p. 182.
  14. ↑ Mathiez 1999; Jones 2007; Montefiore 2017.
  15. 1 2 Slomp 2011, p. 145.
  16. ↑ Rodríguez García 2010, p. 254.
  17. ↑ Gaur et al. 2020.
  18. ↑ Qiu 2015; Barro 2015; Tupy 2016; Cooper 2018; Levitz 2019; Krugman 2020.

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