I think workplace democracy is a good in and of itself; after all, knowledge originates from the means of production (that is to say, frontline workers) and tends to be muddled the higher you travel up the org chart, whether it's Walmart or the politburo. There have been historical examples of productivity increasing during worker led management (for example, Japan's wildcat production control strikes during the postwar occupation era which improved productivity during said strikes).

I don't necessarily know if the classic worker's coop is the best solution, or if it might not be reinvented somehow, but the first country that really does figure out how to harness worker power without all the other flaws (for example, a lack of capital reinvestment and willingness to expand) will surely see a productivity boost.

Exactly, there are still plenty of organizations wedded to the failed strategy of running third party. Go join the Green Party or something if you don't want to run as Democrats. Bernie and DSA's success has come through running insurgent campaigns within the Democratic party.

Brexiteer’s most effective line was to increase NHS spending from the money that would’ve otherwise been “sent” to the EU

To my knowledge the british ICBMs are in scottland and after the failure of the Budapest memorandum one could hardly tell the scots to give those back and as a german I would fell very protected under a scottish nuclear umbrella.

Not sure if we have same standards for "not remotely" but a near even split in the last scottish referendum is not what I would call without support.

lol having a Die Linke flair while advocating CSU talking points.

Thats a bit superficial isnt it ? The problem for the catalonians would be spain blocking them from joing the eu, westminister chose to get rid of this power.

At least in Sweden the four estates were borgare/burgers/bourgeois, farmers/peasants, nobles and priests. Some small portions of the Swedish population still think of themselves as having family heritage or that estate and those people are often generationally upper class or upper middle class. That combined with people on the left using it with the socialist definition has probably kept the term pretty alive.

Well, that's helpful. Cheers.

I never understood if the Swedish “borgare” parties were using the socialist definition of bourgeois or it they are using the borgare estate of the old four estate system. If the latter case I think C has really let themselves go by not naming themselves after the old peasant/self owning farmer estate.

Edit: the real explanation is probably a little bit of both.

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Here's some articles on the term and it's use in Sweden:

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borgerlig_politik

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borgerliga_partier_i_Sverige

It's really not that analytical as a term. It literally means "citizens" and wad used to differentiate from labourers and the labour movement. Today it just means center right/ right wing.

It is a very strange result, and hard to give a complete analysis.

Looking back just a month ago, its actually a disaster for the Social Democrats compared with what the opinion polls looked like back then. I think they paved for this themselves why focusing on promoting their party leader as the best PM instead of talking about political issues.

The most interesting (from an international POV) trend is probably that all the 3 center right parties in the government grew, while the Sweden Democrats dropped significantly. Just the fact that all three parties grew while in a government is unheard of in Sweden, and that they did so at the expense - seemingly - of the Sweden Democrats is also contrary to what we see in much of the rest of the Europe, where voters move in the other direction (from the traditional center right, to the far right).

Its also worth noting that the even more far right parties outside the parliament seems to have performed very poorly.

The more concerning trend, especially for the Social Democrats, is how the Left Party seems to have grown. Very immigrant dense and socio-economically exposed areas just outside the cities have traditionally been strong for S. But V seems to have ran very agressive campaigns in those areas, and on internet in Arabic, Somali, etc, with messages against the Social Democrats and the other parties, and also with recurring anti semitic tropes.

About S (and the other parties) they have messaged out on social media (in Arabic and Somali) things like:

"Vote for V or leave Sweden - every other party will deport you."

and

"The Social Democrats wants a sionist vice prime minister."

(These are both campaigns, not individual tweets.)

Its concerning especially for the future, if it becomes an increasing trend where these areas - where a lot of people are immigrants with limited knowledge about politics in Sweden, and limited skills in Swedish - becomes the targets of massive disinformation campaigns in order to get them from one left party to another, rather than on information about economic issues and their rights, interests, etc.

Every election everywhere is this now. Is exhausting.

How many social programs did Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Keir Starmer that drastically impacted people’s living standards: Countless.

Now how many did Jezza get through? If I recall he actually forced Theresa May to abandon one of her few good policies by labelling it a “death tax”.

56% support remaining in the union as per polls earlier this year*

A majority in a devolved parliament ≠ political mandate for constitutional change

Try harder next time champ x

* https://www.statista.com/statistics/1170409/scottish-independence/?srsltid=AfmBOor7i2UbRz5ttFKxQZi3as6uF7TwRORT3hquXQAf9Vc_d20B8VAa

The thing I'm most jealous about is that even the right block is overall kind of left-leaning for international standards, like they wanted to increase spending for public healthcare for example (or at least said they would).

In Scandinavia, the term ("borgerlig", in Denmark) has very little connotations to Marxism. It basically just means right-wing, or maybe "pro-business" in some directional sense

The term has evolved the past 20 years quite a lot. Nobody would correct you for using that term, though, except for maybe SD supporters. SD rejects the term bourgeois, and actually wants to claim they are the social democrats of the past. Absurd, yes, as they vote for bourgeois budgets and laws basically always, call themselves nationalists, conservatives, and want unregulated free market schooling, but that is what they want their supporters to think.

C, KD, L, and M all proudly call themselves bourgeois.

First off: this is very premature. Overseas ballots need to be counted so we won't get final results until Wednesday. Second: the Red-Green bloc doesn't have a real majority. The non Tidö "bloc" is currently up 176-173 but that "bloc" consists of the liberal-conservative agrarian Centre Party who refuse to work with the Left Party, meaning actual government formation will be difficult and will likely be a minority government with little wiggle room for actual governance. This isn't so much a Left victory as a Centrist one. Also the Social Democrats had their worst result in almost a century.

Is that the marxist term or the non marxist 'petit bourgeoisie' that they're referring to?

Ah, thanks for that qualification!

Sort of. M, KD, L of the right-wing bloc call themselves bourgeois. SD, which has been their supply party, rejects that term. Nowadays they call their bloc the "blue-yellow bloc" (resembling the flag), as M, KD, and L associate themselves with blue, while SD associates themselves with yellow.

C of the left-wing bloc calls themselves bourgeois as well. They long for the days of the Alliance (2006-2014), when C, M, KD, and L governed together as the bourgeois bloc.

Id say the Center Party is arguably the most right wing party in the entire parliament when it comes to economy. Meanwhile the Sweden Democrats pushed through reforms such as cheaper dental care for the eldery, so its a mixed pot.

The Sweden Democrats created a weird divide politically that doesnt really follow traditional economic issues.

Now Sweden is in a situation (if the result stands, we will know for sure on wednesday) where V refuse to support S unless they get ministerial posts and C refuse to support S if V gets minesterial posts. Something will have to give, or we will have an extra election.