Experiment: 800 Words From Social Democratic Bloggers

So, here's an experiment. There are a few blogs linked to hoverbike, by readership and or by the author's shared political experiences somewhere in the sphere of social democracy. It would be great if our interaction went deeper than just posts or responses. I propose that, every once in a while, we all write essays on the same topic, and post them on our blogs with links to one another. I know this is common out there in the blogosphere, but not in our little democratic left corner...



What do you say? 800 words. Take no longer than a week or so. Post it. Link the others.

Here are the people I would like to hear from:
Geoff Kurtz
Matt May (and his other Gunslingers)
Peter Gustafsson
Fredrik Jansson
Lucas Shapiro
Maria Svart
Erik Love (our token liberal)

Am I missing folks? Is the social democratic blogosphere really this white and male? Are you holding your sides laughing at such a naive question?

And here is the question:
In our post-post-modern era, in which we are told by pundits and social scientists that ideology is dead, what is the importance of political labels? How do you label yourself? Is there a unique discussion around labels in your own national or regional political culture?

Get writing.