S's new social analysis is for immigration but is it and everything else it is in a way that is most repressive. The class analysis and the workers' needs are absent. S is the big red-green society-supporting party. It must abandon the idea of "saving-in-the-barns". This austerity goal is only focused on subsidizing the wealth of the very few at the expense of…
Category: Architecture
Your vote for a government building subsidy can save society and the climate
Vote for the state to reintroduce the construction subsidy https://agera.skiftet.org/campaigns/aterinfor-byggstodet A state construction subsidy to build cheap, good and beautiful homes as well as housing subsidies and regulations that lower the average rent to 25% of the salary of low-income earners can have positive effects on the economy. These measures can potentially reduce inflation, increase employment, promote societal output and reduce economic disparities. By increasing…
No government deficits – society's unnecessary straitjacket
Vote for bigger government deficits! Deficits are part of how the state regulates the market and protects citizens and nature. Neoliberalism attacks this. How is money created? Can we afford to work? Sweden's Riksbank's prize in economic science in memory of Alfred Nobel in 2022 suggested that banks have an important role for the social economy even if this can…
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....
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...
Every vote counts
Every vote counts. One of the most powerful pieces of advice I received was from the end of my university studies, when a PhD student or researcher said: Don't be afraid to do what you believe in, because whatever you do, many people do the same thing.
"Survival" - Book for libertarian left-wing social democracy
Why did welfare in Sweden begin to be dismantled from the 70s? Can everyone get a job? How do we give people housing? The climate - how do we save it? Feel good in a challenging society, okay? The newly published book "Survival - for society and the people" wants to spark discussion about society and life. Read the review by Lars Gahrn,…
Residential focus on good variety, low rents and integration
We must develop residential areas where people enjoy and can afford to live. Where all the different groups of society can live together, side by side. Certainly the architect Fredrik Rosenhall has a point in his article in GP that modernist architecture and classicist can learn from each other. But certainly not in that modernist architecture would be allowed to continue…