How to be a social democrat, in six easy steps:

1. Betray a workers’ revolution.
2. Act surprised when fascists take power.
3. Watch helplessly as communists come in and drive out the fascists, and whine about how the communists aren’t being sufficiently “democratic.”
4. Blame fascist takeover on the communists (they didn’t work with you), and on the workers being unsophisticated sexually repressed troglodytes who don’t masturbate enough.
5. Get a breakaway state going where you transition all kinds of “former” fascists into positions of power.
6. Claim that, all along, it was the communists who were the real fascists.