Work for all is the goal society must have. Brilliant text on the benefits of full employment and its positive side effects. Niklas Blomqvist questions the idea that the market itself can create full employment. For example, Blomqvist points out that attempts to follow this path in the last thirty years have not produced the desired results. He emphasizes that work for…
Category: Freedom of alliance
How to save equality and the environment/nature all over the world
Global equality and the environment - how do we save these? Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is a macroeconomic theory that proposes that governments with their own currency have the ability to spend unlimited amounts of money on desirable sectors of the economy. Sustainably productive investments increase budget space According to MMT, government spending is limited by inflation and not by public debt....
The red-greens must protect freedom and solidarity
Almost as many die in workplace accidents as in gang crime. Hundreds of workers, especially men, kill themselves every year because of the hard working life. The welfare increases of 2014-18 were too weak if wonderful and the slaughter of LAS and the attack on the low rent system and the tax cuts for the rich 2018-2022 horrible. Those who were hit hardest by the…
Post-election analysis: communication, freedom under responsibility and equality
According to Red Justice's post-election analysis, the broad left including the Social Democrats must improve on communication, freedom under responsibility and equality.
Red-green cooperation provides a better distribution policy
Distributive policies can reduce class gaps. Red-green cooperation provides better distribution policy and equality. "During the "best" red-green years in terms of distribution policy, 2016 and 2018, the Swedish Gini coefficient (inequality) decreased and the 20 percent with the lowest income had a better income trend than the 20 percent with the highest income." Source: https://www.dn.se/debatt/rodgront-samarbete-ger-battre-fordelningspolitik/ In addition to the debate article, there is a report. Read the report from Katalys here.
Workers must be underpaid, but the poor must not exist
News agency Järva interviews a smart woman – the poet Nattalie Ström Bunpuckdee. Based on her story, we are reminded once again that we live in an Ayn Rand era where ordinary people are a burden and solidarity is the highest evil. The poor must only obey and deliver but deserve no socio-economic conditions and no housing they have...
The classic conflict between labor and capital is always relevant
Johan Sjölander, new CEO of the social democratic think tank Tiden, has written a brilliant essay about the swings of politics since a number of decades ago. Sjölander emphasizes the Bildt government's strong residual effects, even if these were destructive. Sjölander seems to believe in a third way as the future path to victory for the broad left.
Stability and changes in the values of Swedes and the world's population
An interesting survey has come out about changes in the values of Swedes and the world population. In Sweden, family is important and mutual trust is great. Confidence in Sweden is high for all groups. But some immigrant groups are just trustworthy but are not perceived to be as extraordinarily trustworthy as the rest of the population.
Preventive and repressive measures are not enough against gang crime and crime
Against gang crime, criminality and social unrest, school and social services are important preventive and rehabilitative efforts, as well as police and prison significant repressive efforts are important parts. But even more important is to offer good jobs to everyone with long-term employment and good wages. Work is historically one of Sweden's most effective integration and order-creating factors. Unemployment also seems to lead…
Do not prohibit the necessary freedom of movement of ordinary people
Now during Covid-19, the car is an extra big prerequisite for quality of life and necessary freedom of movement for those who are 70+. In Gothenburg, the governing, bourgeois Alliance has commissioned an investigation to see what would happen if environmental zones were introduced in the city center where cars older than 2009 would be prohibited. The Green Party supports the investigation and…