cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8915892

(original article in Swedish that reported this)

Posting this because I hadn’t heard about it before and I’m probably not the only Mullvad user here, so might as well.

I’m not Swedish, but going off NATOpedia, it seems like the party is basically reinventing fascism from first principles:

The party claims to stand for a “class-conscious populism” which according to party leader Markus Allard takes inspiration from marxist ideology and unites the “productive” classes of society against the “Transferiat”, with the “Transferiat” being a term coined by Allard to describe the classes of society that lives off transfers that are a net negative for society such as those who, despite having an ability to work, live off social welfare benefits, as well as those who work “made-up services”[…]

The party differs from modern day left-wing parties by seeing the working class as co-dependent with people working in enterprise and business and instead sees the classes that “live off transfers”, as specified, as a large economic net-negative and an obstacle for a functional society.

visible-disgust Their ideology is nonsense fake-marxist revisionism to redirect anger at capitalism and turn it against immigrants and people who need social welfare (though they do back some generally left oriented social policies, their main thing appears to be racism)

Even if you’re comfortable with funding this, it still begs the question of just how trustworthy Mullvad actually is.

I guess this still beats any of the dozens of Israeli VPNs that definitely spy on you, but it’s not great emilie-shrug

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    To be fair, much of this could be flak, deliberate distortion and slander by the neoliberal forces in Sweden. You can’t trust the mainstream media not to trash anything that isn’t neoliberal.

    Some key issues for the Örebro Party locally include strong secularism, a 30-hour workweek with retained pay, lowered wages for politicians, expanded social housing, abolishing preschool-fees, making public transport free of charge,[4] ending taxpayer funding of what it sees as wasteful sculptures, monuments and art and introducing free dental care.

    This all sounds great.

    Nationally the party has set out large-scale remigration, closing the Swedish borders to immigration, a stricter assimilation policy and ending taxes on energy and fuel as some of its key issues.

    And I suspect a clear majority of Europeans are also against immigration or reducing how many refugees we take in thanks to fucking imperialist wars by the elite. There is nothing “far right” about this. I’m also for sending refugees back (EDIT: After it’s safe to send them back!) and strictly limiting immigration in my country. The only real issue is that “remigration” is apparently code word for ethnic cleansing.

    The larger issue is that this ideology sounds pretty half baked and too simple for the complexity of the current state of things.

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      The only real issue is that “remigration” is apparently code word for ethnic cleansing.

      Yeah, just the small issue of genocide, but other than that, the rest of their policies are only moderate white supremacist ones.

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          Ethnic cleansing is genocide. Genocide is a term that has an actual meaning, it’s not just “bad things”. Please educate yourself before correcting people on the term.

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            Ethnic cleansing can mean mass deportation, like in the US right now. You really think that genocide? Would deporting the 1.1 million Ukrainian refugees in Germany back to Ukraine be genocide?

            Ethnic cleansing sounds vile enough. No need to call it genocide, which it isn’t.

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      Erm…“remigration” is the dogwhistle for concentration camps, though? I mean, you do you, but as far as classifying something as “far right”…talking about remigration easily tops that list ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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        From what I read remigration is ethnic cleansing by mass deportation. I hadn’t even heard of the term before. I guess detention (or concentration?) camps are then inevitable too, we’re seeing remigration right now in the US. Everyone just watches and lets it happen.

        It should go without saying that I’m sarcastic and absolutely against such inhuman policies and that it’s an entirely different thing from being against immigration and unlimited refugees in Europe. Different to the USA which is still mostly empty and an immigration country.

        Sweden is now 8.1% Muslim. Even if most are moderate or non-practicing, that’s well past a limit where you can expect “assimilation”. Whatever that is supposed to mean, are we the Borg?

        Does your own country and it’s culture mean anything? Are you allowed to have and preserve a cultural identity? Does ideal diversity and internationalism mean homogenity globally? I don’t think so.

        So yeah, remigration is a far right dogwhistle, but calling anyone in favor of sensible limits on immigration/refugees a racist or xenophobe is a neoliberal talking point.

        Anyway, climate change could create something like a billion refugees until the end of the century. That would make ideology pretty much irrelevant.

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          I guess detention (or concentration?) camps are then inevitable

          Yes, those are inevitable. Even the death camps within, it’s not about detention. Like, the “real nazis” themselves wanted to “remigrate” jews to Madagascar. That was their original plan to get rid of them

          Didn’t work, so they needed to genocide. And that shit will happen again while we all watch and debate whether “remigration” is a far-right thing and whether donating to a literal nazi party makes you a nazi ¯\_(ツ)_/¯