Daniel Berntsson, founder of Mullvad, gave a personal donation of 5 million SEK (roughly 450,000€) in 2025 to Örebropartiet. This enormous donation accounted for 72% of the party’s revenue in 2025.
How does this affect Mullvad’s legitimacy as a company advocating for a free and open internet, while also funding a political party whose agenda seem to contradict these values? The official party website (in Swedish) can be found via the link below.
Not at all. Socialism can be non-Marxist (because socialism more broadly entails social ownership of the economy). Social democracy does not necessarily entail that. Like most ideologies, it supports greater equity, though to a significantly greater extent than non-socialist and non-social democrat philosophies.
A (far-)right-wing party by definition is extremely unlikely to be Marxist, as Marxism focuses on class conflict, recognising the dangers of a wealthy and reactionary business elite to the labourers. And the far-right and right typically are strong allies of those.
I’m also not certain what kind of nationalism the party holds - whether it’s a relatively inclusive civic form, as in early modern France or proudness of their focus on social wellbeing – or ethnonationalistic (which is more concerning, as it has a much bigger potential to steer into outright hatred).
Nah, I got the joke, just wanted to still go onto a tangent.