How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’ | The Indypendent

I don't know if you read anything by socialist writers very much. Either way, you might find this piece by George Lakely interesting. He writes about how the Swedes and Norwegians created a fairly egalitarian economy. He says in part,

Both countries had a history of horrendous poverty. When the 1 percent was in charge, hundreds of thousands of people emigrated to avoid starvation. Under the leadership of the working class, however, both countries built robust and successful economies that nearly eliminated poverty, expanded free university education, abolished slums, provided excellent health care available to all as a matter of right and created a system of full employment. Unlike the Norwegians, the Swedes didn’t find oil, but that didn’t stop them from building what the latest CIA World Factbook calls “an enviable standard of living.”


It didn't just happen. It is a fascinating glimpse, both at countries that have made other allocative and distributive choices and at a writer who believes passionately in a even more socialist distribution of resources and outputs.

How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’ | The Indypendent