Wow, I'm really surprised my comments didn't spark myriad of condescending / outraged / annoyed replies...
I didn't comment on your post because...
I think all of those were very good reasons to comment on my post. 
At least if you believe if I have anything worthwhile to say on the subject. Which I'm not sure I have, but will try to come up with when I have more time.
For the time being, let me just say that I don't believe I have any recipe for making workers (or anyone else) believe in Social Democracy again. I've never been good at convincing people and while I know for a fact that an ideological elite can significantly reshape the political culture of their societies (because it has been done many times in history), I have little idea how exactly it is done. What pisses me off is that modern left-wing politicians don't even bother trying. They have been wiping their asses with Social Democracy for two decades now - so of course the working class is not going to adhere to Social Democracy, since the case for it has never been presented to them.
Well, there is a reason why they dont try, and it relates to the increased mediatisation of politics and the general idea that "free markets are the only way". Basically, to a greater and greater extent our opinios are informed by a group of people who have a very obvious incentive to oppose any traditional social democratic policies like nationalisation or higher taxes.
In the same way, nationalism as a concept is a massive barrier to any international social democratic concept, as we all "have" to compete against each other, Its a massive shame that the EU never really followed up on the Jacques Delors era, and still allowed tax havens like Luxembourg or Ireland to undermine the possibility of a succesful multistate social democratic compact.
