Social democracy and fascism are both class collaborationist ideologies: fascism is cynical in the use of class collaborationism to serve the power of the ruling class, while social democrats are often more naive. The difference between the imperial core and developing world is that the national bourgeoisie of the developing nations have tensions with the international bourgeoisie of the imperial core, and thus are more willing to come to a truce with labor to protect their interests. The social democrats of Europe were able to forge these sorts of truces in the 20th century due to the shadow of the USSR, but with the fall of socialism in Europe the ruling classes have no need for such a labor peace and have been instead using the social democratic parties to dismantle said institutions.