How would you describe the European legislation to protect their citizens from the effects of the market and capital? (Welfare, worker rights, pensions, limited work hours, paid leave etc.)

I'm not looking for dialectical nitpicking (maybe Socratic questioning), I'm asking out of curiosity and a want to understand the differences.

[–] Cleverdawny@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's social liberalism. It's an offshoot of democratic socialism which discarded the goal of transition to socialism for continuing to reform capitalism. It also describes the US New Deal Coalition.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_liberalism

[–] dontcarebear@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you, very informative.