There's a reason social democracy is the status quo for "developed" countries: Because it relies on imperialism to fuel social welfare. Bourgeois reforms involve decrease pressure on the domestic labor, and increased pressure on the imperial periphery. The bourgeoisie sacrifice very little with social democracy, which is why they allow it every century or so as a sort of bourgeois-guided "redistribution".
According to its own argument at the bottom, social democracy is the status quo for what it calls "developed" countries. :us-foreign-policy:
There's a reason social democracy is the status quo for "developed" countries: Because it relies on imperialism to fuel social welfare. Bourgeois reforms involve decrease pressure on the domestic labor, and increased pressure on the imperial periphery. The bourgeoisie sacrifice very little with social democracy, which is why they allow it every century or so as a sort of bourgeois-guided "redistribution".