Optimism: More Than Just A Smile Optimism is not about seeing the world through rose-colored glasses and believing that everything is perfect. Rather, it is about finding hope and strength, even when life feels at its darkest, and continuing to fight for both your personal goals and for the good of society. It is the ability to see…
Category: Leadership
Communicators work for democracy
In public Sweden, intensive work is underway to balance the budget for next year. We have high inflation and expect recession. A warning is issued against making too large savings by reducing the number of communicators. Politicians and debaters sometimes question the need for these, which is seen as short-term and risky for citizens' participation...
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 left party for welfare, climate and industry
First: the public sector must take back control of welfare from the market. It is when politics takes responsibility that we can have functioning care, school and care, full employment and secure jobs. Ever since the 1990s, both s and m governments have privatized and introduced market systems. The Left Party stopped the latest such attempts when they dropped the proposal to…
"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,…
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…
The red-greens continue to deliver
According to Affärsvärlden, the economists predict that the boom for Swedish industry under the Red-Green government will continue to gather steam for several more years and that employment will also remain high. This earlier post actually explains why it makes sense that booms are historically more common under reds and now also under redgreens…
Kind managers produce kinder and more efficient employees
The tyrannical boss who publicly incites and judges does not produce more efficient but only more stressed and sick employees, two new surveys show. Kind managers make more productive and healthier employees. And teams that show security and concern for each other are in turn the best performers of different team types.
Free trade agreements for corporate control of societies may fall
American presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has said that she intends to put an end to the TPP free trade agreement that concerns the United States and the countries of the Pacific Ocean. Then the sister agreement TTIP between the US and the EU will probably also fall. Both free trade agreements are really just free trade agreements in name. What they are actually doing is a huge transfer of power from democratic, popularly elected power holders to today's corporate owners.
A school, residential areas and a community for all
A moderate politician told us that the problem with the Swedish school before the free school reform and municipalization in the 90s was that it made all students succeed too well and evenly. According to him, the burghers wanted it to be easier for the children of the burghers to succeed and harder for the children of the poor. Free school choice succeeded in this. For the price…