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…
Category: Syria
"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,…
Swedish record economy with challenges under the Social Democrats
The bourgeois mass media portray the Swedish economy as in crisis. Presumably they do this not just to maintain power. The citizens do not want the people to realize that good national economy and solidarity and tolerant ethics usually go hand in hand. If the people are sufficiently rich but it still pays to get an education, then the purchasing power increases...
Swedish record growth with red-green government and many refugees
I already wrote at the end of the summer that the Swedish economy began to grow and unemployment to fall. The trend has continued under our red-green government.
The mother of all problems
The lean road and the cutthroat competition are modern to all the problems the world sees today. The civil war in Syria. Russia's aggressiveness. Isis in the Middle East. Ebola in West Africa. The permanent mass unemployment. Constant social cuts. States that end up in debt crisis. Since the 80s, we have slimmed down organisations. When communism fell, social democracy was not introduced, but neoliberalism with gigantic gaps...
Crises of stupidity – the recession in Sweden and the world in 2012
This will be an overall and connecting article. In any case, since 2006 we have mostly had a recession. I believe this in Sweden and many other countries is due to not investing in the public sector and creating jobs for everyone.