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…
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Neither demonizing nor releasing the right-wing extremists helps
Of course, it is important not to demonize any political movement, including far-right groups. But helping more extreme right-wing politics by inviting discontent parties on the extreme edge of the right, as The Economist advocates on 2023-09-14 in the editorial "The EU's liberals need better ways to deal with populists" solves nothing. Too often, the right-wing extremists are too…
The truth about immigration
A conservative view is that a country can either have a sustainable welfare state or high levels of immigration. But that view is wrong. The fact is that we can achieve both a well-functioning welfare state and increased immigration. By using progressive taxes and government deficits to invest in making everyone in society feel good…
Trickle-down economics has reached the end of the road
Comedian Jonathan Pie shows with pinpoint brilliance in the video below how Trickle-down economics with his mantra: "Help the rich! Punish the poor!” not working. Trickle-down economics does not build a strong economy nor a strong welfare. Put simply, it leads to a very difficult existence for those who have the least. Even many high achievers…
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....
What are the block options in 2022?
What are the block options in 2022? Maybe there will be clearer election campaigns, the closer we get to the election. But what are the electoral issues among the red-greens and the right if you look at the politics of recent years? Lina Stenberg for Dagens Arena has tried to explain this by reading the parliamentary motions. I have made my own additions especially if they are red-green…
Strategy for the Social Democrats to win the 2026 election
A new strategy is needed for the Social Democrats. We need to create good jobs at all levels for everyone. We must stop the price of gasoline from reaching ever-escalating heights. We must offer everyone good social security and pensions. We have to regulate social security and pensions by price and wage indices. We must eliminate the lack of good, cheap and beautiful rental properties. The lack…
How can we greatly increase Sweden's employment and competitiveness?
In order to create employment for more people, a number of measures are needed, we need to help those affected by involuntary unemployment and long-term part-time sick leave. -public sector should set a good example and let part-time sick jobseekers choose full-time or part-time employment themselves. Maybe even the healthy should be allowed to choose part-time. Here, however, I am not entirely sure. Many studies…
"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,…
The Sossarna offer hope
Already exactly four months before the election, the #Social Democrats have presented several major #reforms that will be important parts in building a #stronger society. It is, for example, about a reform with increased #pensions for those who have worked hard in professional life, about big investments in more employees in care to reduce the #care queues and more #police to fight it...