Göran Therborn: Twilight of Swedish Social Democracy
▻https://newleftreview.org/II/113/goran-therborn-twilight-of-swedish-social-democracy
Hailed with relief for fear of a bleaker outcome, the SAP’s poor performance in the September 2018 election underlines the malaise afflicting social democracy’s global flagship. Therborn charts the country’s SAP-led neoliberalization—and rise of the far-right Sweden Democrats—against the backdrop of recession and refugee arrivals.