Is Sweden Socialist?

Olof Palme was, when he was shot, serving as Swedish Prime Minister and as leader of the Social Democratic Party. His second term as Prime Minister came after a shortlived "bourgeois" (rightist or centrist, not clearly leftist or "labour" parties, like Social Democratic Party and its kid brother the Communist Party).

So, counting governments, starting from when he acceeded:

Olof Palme II	labour			8 October 1982
				– 28 February 1986
Ingvar Carlsson I	labour			13 March 1986
				– 4 October 1991
		Carl Bildt	bourgeois	4 October 1991
				– 7 October 1994
Ingvar Carlsson II	labour			7 October 1994
				– 22 March 1996
Göran Persson	labour			22 March 1996
				– 6 October 2006
		Fredrik Reinfeldt	bourgeois	6 October 2006
				– 3 October 2014
Stefan Löfven	labour			3 October 2014
				– 30 November 2021
Magdalena Andersson	labour			30 November 2021
				– 18 October 2022
		Ulf Kristersson	bourgeois	18 October 2022
				to present
	labour			20 years, 11 days
			bourgeois	11 years, 183 days

Before Palme II, one had briefly a bourgois government. Or rather three of them. Thorbjörn Fälldin I - Ola Ullsten - Thorbjörn Fälldin II lasted six years on the day. They had broken a forty year long monopoly of labour governments, often Social Democrats in coalition with Communists, once, perhaps twice, in coalition with the same party that Thorbjörn Fälldin was part of. So, since the accession of Per Albin Hansson, 1932, 44 + 20 = 64 years labour, and 6 + 11 1/2 = 17 1/2 years bourgeois.

The bourgois interim of six years was, twice : Thorbjörn Fälldin for the Centre Party, formerly Farmers' League, member of Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party, Liberal International and Renew Europe; once, between those, Ola Ullsten for the Liberal People's Party now The Liberals, member of Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party, Liberal International and Renew Europe. These are non-extant in the United States.

The bourgois from Carl Bildt on have been Moderate Party, European People's Party or International Democrat Union. In other words, the Republican party.

The vast majority of government time (since September 1932) is however monopolised by Swedish Social Democratic Party, member of Party of European Socialists, Progressive Alliance. In other words, the Democratic party. When Bernie Sanders claims that Sweden is Socialist, he knows what he's talking about. It's just that when he and FEE claim Sweden is a working model, neither know what they are talking about.

French old age pensions are taking a bad swipe now. The age is going up. I have written some pieces about that:

Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere: Alice Cappelle Has a Point · New blog on the kid: I Think a Solution is Possible · back to Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere: Dialogue Under Alice Cappelle's Video · back to New blog on the kid: Do The French Work Too Little? No. Not for Others

By "now" I basically mean since Macron became president first time, but it was delayed due to Covid restrictions taking the forefront. Anyway, 2017 or 2023 is later than ... I would say it was 2003, but wiki says, not only was the decison taken even earlier, 1994 and 1998, but it is here supposed to have got legal power as early as 1999 - well, it was 2003 I noted it (1999, I spent serving a prison sentence).

In other words, Swedish pensions are down because Swedish fertility is down. The pension down earlier than France is because Swedish ferility is lower than France. And Swedish fertility is down because of:

• feminism of the Planned Parenthood type
• being compulsorily promoted in schools
• plus denatalist agendas
• being compulsorily promoted in schools
• by teachers who get paid by tax crowns, and by the animators from organisations, sponsored by tax crowns

In other words, because Sweden is very socialist.

That's why I left it. You may not believe me, but that is also why I went to prison before leaving. Bernie Sanders and his critics are both wrong. It is not a Socialist Utopia. It is not non-Socialist (except in the private sector of the economy), so what is it? A Socialist Utopia gone wrong (as Socialist Utopias tend to do), or in other words a Socialist Dystopia.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
II Lord's Day after Easter
Memory of St. George
23.IV.2023

Natalis sancti Georgii Martyris, cujus illustre martyrium inter Martyrum coronas Ecclesia Dei veneratur.