A newsletter from SubRosa discusses brutalization in our brutal age, I want to highlight that in my opinion that supports Karl Marx in this dilemma. Matter before morality Marx emphasizes matter before morality, while Hegel says that history develops out of a struggle between ideas (often of a moral nature) that ends in the modern state with…
Category: Welfare society
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...
Visitation zones instead of competitiveness
In visitation zones, the police must be able to stop and search people without having a specific suspicion of crime. The idea is that it will make the streets safer, but many are against it. Critics believe that it can lead to abuse and violations of people's rights. This is especially true if it is used against certain groups based on skin color…
Everyone works differently – an asset to humanity
Throughout history, humanity has proven to be a neurodiverse species, where brains work in different ways. This is not an accident, but can be a survival advantage. In difficult situations, people become more flexible when different ways of thinking and perspectives meet each other. Evolutionarily speaking, the diversity in how people's cognitive apparatus works has been an asset. The collective strength lies…
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…
Defend democracy - help Katalys
Katalys writes very insightful texts and reports on working conditions, equality, democracy and a sustainable economy as well as nature's conditions. I am having a tough time financially, but have donated SEK 100 to Katalys. Now I am asking you for your help for Katalys. After a year in power, the right-wing Tidö government, with support from SD, has initiated changes...
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…
Your vote for a government building subsidy can save society and the climate
Vote for the state to reintroduce the construction subsidy https://agera.skiftet.org/campaigns/aterinfor-byggstodet A state construction subsidy to build cheap, good and beautiful homes as well as housing subsidies and regulations that lower the average rent to 25% of the salary of low-income earners can have positive effects on the economy. These measures can potentially reduce inflation, increase employment, promote societal output and reduce economic disparities. By increasing…
The right thinks the poor should eat less
Poor people should eat less. At the same time, 500 people in Sweden cannot afford basic expenses and certainly no greed inflation. In 000, 2022% of households lacked a buffer for unforeseen expenses. But the right's solution to inflation is that low-income earners should reduce their consumption of electricity, heat and food. Therefore, many Swedes now have to lower the temperature...
Iraq was tricked into becoming a belligerent aggressor
Iraq was tricked in the late 1970s into going from eco-friendly welfare state to corrupt, belligerent dictatorship. In this way, the West could invade the country and buy its oil resources cheaply from the West. Iraq has paid for America's war with millions dead. 20 years after the launch of George W Bush the younger's attack on Iraq, there is no doubt…