We've had one abandonment of social democracy cycle so far, I wouldn't draw timeless conclusions based on that. In particular, if uneven industrialization and

We've had one abandonment of social democracy cycle so far, I wouldn't draw timeless conclusions based on that. In particular, if uneven industrialization and colonization hadn't created such large scale inequality for norms arbitrage, it might have kept going. If I had to draw any conclusion from this n=1 it would be about the "thermodynamics" of post-colonialism, not the staying power of social democracy.