True but since so many things are in relative terms if the US were to have some of the social things that Sweden has today the gains to the US might be a change in the status quo. Healthcare, education, and minimum wage improvements could be part of a non-socialist US of A.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Anthony P. D'Costa, Chair & Professor of Contemporary Indian Studies Australia India Institute and School of Social & Political Sciences University of Melbourne, 147-149 Barry Street, Carlton VIC 3053, AUSTRALIA Ph: +61 3 9035 6161 Visit the Australia India Institute Website http://www.aii.unimelb.edu.au/ New: After-Development Dynamics (on South Korea) http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198729433.do Forthcoming Book: http://www.tandf.net/books/details/9780415564953/ New Book Series (Dynamics of Asian Development) http://www.springer.com/series/13342 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent from my iPad > On Nov 10, 2015, at 13:51, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > > In 1938 the Swedish trade unions (Landsorganisationen) and the SAF, the > Swedish equivalent of the Chamber of Commerce (Svenska > arbetsgivareföreningen), signed an accord at Saltsjöbaden that would > define the parameters of class peace for the next forty years. Under > successive Social Democratic (SAP) governments, the system became known > as “socialism” even though it was really a welfare state and nothing > more. One of the more unfortunate aspects of the Bernie Sanders campaign > is that it keeps this myth alive even though measured by the standards > of the 1938 agreement Sweden has not been “socialist” for more than 25 > years. > > full: > http://louisproyect.org/2015/11/10/how-swedish-social-democracy-became-neoliberal/ > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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