Social democratic parties today

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The thing is the situation is not actually any better for other parties of the Left. The Western Communist tradition continues to roll slowly towards its eventual grave and newer Left/Populist forces (where they exist, and they mostly don't) have turned out to have a rather more limited appeal than the effusive prose of their boosterists predicted. And whatever we think of Green parties (and their electoral position is not that great either and with very low ceilings) they are not exactly fishing in the same pool for the most part.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Do we count the Italian Democrats as social Democrats?

Despite the fact that they are the surprising child of the DCs and PCI yes.