'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·
    10 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
      1·
      55 minutes 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·
      14 hours 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…

      • dracc@discuss.tchncs.de
        3·
        10 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·
          4 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·
      23 hours 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·
      17 hours 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·
        10 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!