Ideology & Issues
CSP was both a social-democratic and a conservative Christian party. CSP was a reformist party and rejected class conflict. The party was anti-papist and rejected the cooperation between the Protestant Christian Historical Union and the Catholic General League.
Its program combined conservative Protestant proposals with social democratic ones. Among the social-democratic proposals were nationalization of core industries, workers' councils in companies and profit sharing. Among the conservative proposals were the proposal to financially privilege the Dutch Reformed Church to main the Protestant identity of the Netherlands. An interesting proposal, for the 1910s, was to enact legislation against the pollution of soils, water and air.
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