As the Social Democrats' political communication increasingly revolves around security, values and national cohesion, new tensions arise in the party's organization and ideological direction. When the future is described as a preservation of the present, communication risks becoming both exclusionary and visionless. A simplistic view of security and nationalistic communication shifts social democracy away from equality, global responsibility...
Category: The Social Democrats
Three-party systems normalize inequality and racism
This is how racism & right-wing politics were normalized despite voters wanting equal welfare: deregulation and healthcare choices created insecurity; surplus labor kept wages down; “winner-takes-all” in the Riksdag; S shot at the market in 2010. The anxiety became the fuel for the right. M attracts voters who like insecurity and SD attracts voters who like security. S is outmaneuvered when they don’t want to go…
Government: Create more low-wage workers
Tidölaget's strategy is to, after a short time, lower the unemployment fund by 5% every 100 days until it reaches a bottom of SEK 8030 before tax per month. This contrasts with the needs of the long-term unemployed. These are often functionally varied often functionally varied or long-term ill and cannot cope with the low-wage jobs the government advocates to solve...
Work for all provides a more stable, state-regulated mixed economy
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…
S new social analysis a flop
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…
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…
The Social Democrats never demanded Jewish passports
Disinformation about the role of Swedish Social Democrats in the introduction of the J-stamp in Nazi Germany At a time when many use history as a political baton, Ola Larsmo comes forward to examine an ongoing myth-making about the alleged role of Swedish Social Democrats in the introduction of the J-stamp in Nazi Germany. Through a detailed analysis of historical events, Larsmo shows that it is…
Brahmins, the chancellery right and the small folk
Probably Brahmins or the right wing of the Chancellery are a problem within the left movement. Can the authorities understand the small people when the class divides shine? The Brahmins and the time that moved At the same time, a lot of workers work for 20000-25000 full time. While many graduates earn 60000 a month or significantly more. The number of dollar millionaires in Sweden increased from…
Low popularity of benefactor Biden
President Biden has achieved a lot on the economy - especially falling inflation and a great many more jobs. Biden has also won several legislative victories. These will limit the rise in prescription drug prices, expand care options for veterans, slow climate change and rebuild the nation's infrastructure. Still, his popularity ratings are among the lowest in American history except for those of Trump…
Swedish wages are 30 percent too low – The ironclad wage law delivers
Lower Swedish wages. That's what the blue Alliance government wanted in 2006. That's how the Alliance's attack on wages began. Fatally, the Blue Alliance eroded the union affiliation. Another attack was to make it more difficult to get social security and benefits. Consequently, this blue constellation lowered the compensation levels of social security and benefits. The reservation wage would drop. The reservation wage is the lowest…