'I don’t like that he made this donation' — Mullvad CEO reacts to co-founder’s donation to controversial Swedish populist party
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Mullvad says co-founder's 5 million SEK donation to the Örebro Party 'is not part of Mullvad's values or mission'

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EDIT: Apparently, labelling them as far-right isn’t as clear-cut from an economic perspective, but they do hold many core identity politics that are common amongst far-right parties such as:

  • Voiced support for the idea of large-scale remigration on multiple occasions, even for Swedish-born immigrants: “Sweden belongs to the Swedes”
  • Supports Sweden leaving NATO
  • In favor of Sweden leaving the European Union in a so-called “Swexit”
  • Stated that Sweden should only support other countries on the condition that it benefits Sweden and that it has to be “Sweden first”
    • dracc@discuss.tchncs.de
      19·
      22 hours ago

      According to Allard, they’re a populist party based on nationalistic and marxist values. Doesn’t quite fit the left-right scale I’d say. But I guess “far-right” generates more clicks and stirrs more emotion.

      Edit: I’ve been played for a fool. Thanks for pointing out that Marxism is just a branch of socialism. Downvote away, I do not condone nazism and this comment was bad. Will leave untouched though, as erasing history is a bad idea.

      • chloroken@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        13 hours ago

        Marxism is not a branch of socialism. I appreciate you taking a second to edit your post, but I encourage you to dig a bit deeper as to what these terms mean.

      • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        Yeah, I bet nobody remembers that one party that had nationalistic and socialist (for party members, anyway) values. I wish I could remember where they were on the left-right spectrum…

          • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            7 hours ago

            Debatable. While I will agree they are not Marxist socialists, I can’t agree that none of them held any socialist values. There are a lot of views that conflict with socialism, but also ones that overlapped. The problem is, the parts that overlap with socialism were only applicable to citizens, and you could only be a citizen if you’re white.

            And don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying the Nazis were good in the slightest, but there is some nuance here. Like, look at the 7 points I pulled from their 25 point plan, there are socialist values mixed in, they’re just buried and massively outweighed by literally everything else.

            1. Abolition of unearned (work and labour) incomes. Breaking of rent-slavery.
            1. In consideration of the monstrous sacrifice in property and blood that each war demands of the people personal enrichment through a war must be designated as a crime against the people. Therefore we demand the total confiscation of all war profits.
            1. We demand the nationalization of all (previous) associated industries (trusts). We demand a division of profits of all heavy industries.
            1. We demand an expansion on a large scale of old age welfare.
            1. We demand the creation of a healthy middle class and its conservation, immediate communalization of the great warehouses and their being leased at low cost to small firms, the utmost consideration of all small firms in contracts with the State, county or municipality.
            1. We demand a land reform suitable to our needs, provision of a law for the free expropriation of land for the purposes of public utility, abolition of taxes on land and prevention of all speculation in land.
            1. The State is to care for the elevating national health by protecting the mother and child, by outlawing child-labor, by the encouragement of physical fitness, by means of the legal establishment of a gymnastic and sport obligation, by the utmost support of all organizations concerned with the physical instruction of the young.
        • dracc@discuss.tchncs.de
          3·
          22 hours ago

          Far-right, according to almost everyone except their leader. Geeze. I should’ve seen what the hell I wrote. Thanks for connecting the dots for me.

          • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            16 hours ago

            It happens, good on you for recognizing it! And good on you for owning up to it too, that’s not something we see often

      • lime!@feddit.nu
        15·
        1 day ago

        the man made up a type of guy to be mad at which just so happened to include queers, journalists and immigrants, and to win points with the old-guard stalinists we still have here he called them a “class” and decided to wage clasn war on them. it’s right-wing populism draped in a red flag.

      • bryndos@fedia.io
        3·
        1 day ago

        Hmmn, internet meme thing is working weird when the proponent basically describes the subject as “nazi” as if that’s better than “far-right”, within 2 comments.

        Strange fucking world.

        • dracc@discuss.tchncs.de
          3·
          22 hours ago

          Jesus. I did not spend a single second seeing that connection before you typed it out for me. All my downvotes are justified!