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,…
Category: Ideological definitions
Who is the economy for?
Olof Manner ponders in Affärsvärlän whether democracy is capable of solving the EU countries' economic situation. This raises the question of who the economy is for.
Gone time limit in the unemployment fund bad S idea
As said, S wants to offer jobseekers more educational opportunities. It is good so that the jobseekers can become qualified to get the jobs that are available. But it should not be compatible with a red ideology to exclude the person from the unemployment fund who does what he can to look for a job. In addition, both S and M want…
Bourgeois value cousins
We see a Sweden that adapts according to the European Pact's adjustment program and social cuts. This policy chokes off access to work with an inward-looking low-wage sector to create a general competition for low-quality and severely underpaid jobs (which Borg says are too high-paid) and services within the EU. Moderate Member of Parliament Margareta Cederfeldt wrote the following in 2009: "Work gives freedom". Same…
Consensus around a leader who is good for the majority of the population
Now consensus is required around a new leader. This leader must have managed his private affairs exceptionally well, otherwise the media will turn the people against him/her. It requires a leader who can promise security for everyone and a competitive knowledge economy.
The moderates' hidden agenda revealed
See the moderates' hidden agenda here. The moderates pretend to be moving towards the center and use the rhetoric of the left to disarm the red-greens of their arguments. In the long term, they want to abolish LAS and have a flat tax of 25%. This would mean greatly reduced tax revenues, which would require drastic cuts in the public sector and welfare.
The ideological history of the right
The moderates' Swedish history contains an anti-democracy 1904–1918: No to universal suffrage.
The purpose of pure capitalism
Pure capitalism has no nobler purpose than for the majority to toil so that the absolute minority will be able to spray as much champagne as they want on each other.
Socialism – a definition
“Socialism or barbarism” – Rosa Luxembourg http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism Excellent summary.