This is the 1969 foreign policy manifesto of the Social Democratic Party of Finland. I suggest people study this document before people creating assumptions about what social democracy’s stance on imperialism and foreign policy is. SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC FOREIGN POLICY I. THE WORLD OF CRISES AND CONFLICTS There have been both…

What interests are represented in hospitals? What interests do conservatives represent in healthcare debates? This is often shrouded by rhetoric, so we should look at the main thrusts of conservative political advocacy in healthcare. The main conservative political positions so far have been opposing the Affordable Care Act, opposing the…

The ‘’pope of Marxism’’ and his reputation was unfairly tarnished because of a single Leninist fluff piece. Was Karl Kautsky really a renegade and was he lying, as Vladimir Lenin said? I think not. …

What is it? The purpose of this article is to dispel many strange, invalid or restrictive arguments about the Nordics, social democracy and socialism generally. Is the ‘’Nordic model’’ capitalist? It depends what is actually meant by ‘’capitalist’’ or the ‘’Nordic model.’’ If the Nordic model simply refers to all…

And some arguments for it To what ends does socialism work? Socialism has basic several basic goals. Democratize the workplace, industry and the state. This is perhaps the central goal of socialism. The core criticism of capitalism by the left has always been that it is undemocratic. …

Yes, socialism had and has a role to play in countries such as Sweden, Norway and Finland. Are the Nordic countries socialist? What is their relation to socialism? There often seems to be a great deal of confusion around this issue, so therefore it is time to clean this up…

The philosopher of social democracy and a great Marxist Was Eduard Bernstein a revisionist, and were his reasonings a fundamental rupture with Marxism? Were his economic predictions correct? He is often labeled as a revisor. I think this not very true and it misses some details. Was Eduard Bernstein against…

I will be responding to this tweet by Prager University. This is the perfect occasion to finally put this dichotomy to rest. There is an argument from the right and center that they favor ‘’equality of opportunity’’ whereas it is the naive left that favors a malignant concept known as…

Matthew Bruenig has written an excellent piece in People’s Policy Project that I want to expand upon. Sweden had large-scale public ownership in a variety of sectors and was a highly socialized economy during the golden age of social democracy. ‘’In 1950, the Swedish state owned just 14 percent of…