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As a Swede I can only agree. It’s also worth noting that for about two decades now Sweden has lead the first world in terms of rapidly growing economic inequality (and neoliberal extremism in other areas such as school privatizations). Sweden is as good an example as any of how social democracy saved capitalism from itself and disciplined the working class, making it almost completely defenseless when the boom ended and neoliberalism was launched as the only alternative. Website: http://filmint.nu/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FilmInt Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/FilmInt 24 maj 2015 kl. 22:45 skrev Louis Proyect via Marxism <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu>: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Bob Schieffer: Let me just start out by asking you, what is a socialist these > days? I mean, I remember when a socialist was somebody who wanted to > nationalize the railroads and things like that. > > Bernie Sanders: When we talk about Democratic socialism, I think it’s > important to realize that there are countries around the world like Denmark, > Norway, Sweden, Finland, who’ve had social democratic governments on and off > for many, many years. And we can learn a whole lot from some of those > countries. > > —Face the Nation interview, May 10, 2015 > > Sweden is a funny country to call socialist. In France or Austria the > government owns a much larger share of industry, and I would expect that in a > socialist country personal income taxes would be low and company taxes high, > whereas in Sweden it is the opposite. It has the world’s highest personal > income taxes and it’s a tax haven for companies! > > –A statement made in 1976 by Rune Hagelund, a member of the board of the > Swedish Employers’ Federation (SAF), a former professor of economics, and > president and chairman of the board of two of Sweden’s major corporations. > > full: http://louisproyect.org/2015/05/24/the-swedish-model-part-1/ > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/daniel.lindvall%40filmint.nu _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
