#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #FRANCE #SWEDEN #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #France, UCL AL #331 - Politics, #Sweden: The twilight of social democracy (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The elections last September in Sweden, lost by the social democrats to the

benefit of an alliance of the right, is the symbol of the systemic incapacity of
the social democratic strategy. ---- The Swedish legislative elections of
September 11 saw the narrow victory (of 3 seats) of a coalition made up of
liberals, conservatives and the far right. The party of the latter, the Democrats
of Sweden (Sverigedemokraterna, SD), founded by neo-Nazi militants[1], obtained
for the occasion the second highest score with 20.5% of the vote. ---- The
presence of the extreme right as a political force installed in the political
landscape is no longer a surprise since in 2014, this same party of the Democrats
of Sweden, with its 49 seats in Parliament, had succeeded in bringing down the
social democratic government of the time, without integrating the right-wing
coalition. The novelty today is that the far right is part of a right-wing bloc
(of all rights) which announced itself from the campaign ready to work hand in hand.

A "de-demonization" that benefits the capitalists
The first lesson of these elections is that the Liberals are quite prepared, as
here, to govern with the far right to advance their ultraliberal agenda, although
the Social Democrats do not represent, like the PS in France, a threat to the
capitalist system. The far right is not and will never be a solution for those
who want to get rid of this system, it is even an effective guardian[2]. Just as
it is illusory to think that the far right would normalize itself by becoming
institutionalized. On the contrary, it is the whole system that is "extremely right".

Second lesson, the social-democratic project - in the sense of achieving through
elections and the seizure of power in a legitimate way in the process of
bourgeois liberal democracy to impose socialism - is systematically doomed to
failure. We had no doubts about it on our side, but this hope returns cyclically
and sometimes even wins over the enthusiasm of certain anti-capitalist comrades.

Even at its height in the 1970s, social democracy could not impose ambitious
reform projects whose outcome would have been to give a little more power to
employees at the expense of shareholders[3]. And rather than recording the
failure of the reformist path adopted in 1917, it became the zealous architect of
the progressive liberalization of the country : public services, hospitals,
schools, pensions, everything been gradually opened up to the private sector with
the effect of a growing increase in inequalities and a triumphant extreme right.

Today, for lack of prospects for collective emancipation and political, economic
and social equality, the electoral left is doomed in the short or medium term. We
will not mourn her. But it is necessary to collectively build a new emancipatory
social project to oppose liberals, conservatives and reactionaries of all stripes.

David (UCL Chambery)

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Suede-Le-crepuscule-de-la-social-democratie
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