Social democracy is facing one of the worst crises in its history. The SPD suffered a bitter defeat in the last federal elections. But it's not just the SPD, almost all the social democratic parties in Europe are plummeting in the polls. What's going wrong? In his Notes from a Comrade, Peer Steinbrück, a feisty Social Democrat and the SPD's candidate for chancellor in 2013, looks for ways to a renewed social democracy and lists his keywords with a clear edge: containing digital capitalism, fighting growing wealth inequality, having the courage for a new debate on identity politics, deepening the European Union, more engagement with young voters. Ralf Dahrendorf, in a famous essay on the misery of social democracy more than thirty years ago, outlined the "third way" that Bill Clinton, Tony.