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Oh he was extremly popular. My parents was in tears when they heard about the murder (from me, I was 8 but I had the radio on in my room). But he was also seen
by progre 6y ago
Oh he was extremly popular. My parents was in tears when they heard about the murder (from me, I was 8 but I had the radio on in my room). But he was also seen as a traitor by the right. Being outspokenly angry at him was not unusual or extreme at the time.
Edit: This was diffrent times. Lots of people said things like "i wish he was dead" and worse things. Noone called out such talk like we do now. When I starded as aprentice in a factory about 9 years after this there was always threats of violence among workers, people was called racial slurs to their face, women was always "courted" in crude ways. Noone took such things seriously at the time.
- barry-cotter 6y ago> Edit: This was diffrent times. Lots of people said things like "i wish he was dead" and worse things. Noone called out such talk like we do now. When I starded as aprentice in a factory about 9 years after this there was always threats of violence among workers, people was called racial slurs to their face, women was always "courted" in crude ways. Noone took such things seriously at the time. That your class position has moved from the working class to the professional managerial class does not mean the working class has adopted the PMC’s speech codes.
- progre 6y agoI'm not so sure that it's primarily a class thing, I think its more generational. I was still in factories when the shift happened around -98. A bunch of mean old assholes retired and the gen-X people started to get influential in management and more assertive as workers. Very expensive project management roles started to be occupied by women and the company maybe thought they couldn't afford to lose them over some sexist bullshit. Asshole behaviour simply wasn't tolerated anymore, on any level. I have no illusion that people stopped being assholes in -98 but that kind of behaviour was kept to smaller social circles (or anonymus) for a while.
- NotSammyHagar 6y agoI was curious what Palme did, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olof_Palme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olof_Palme tells me he pursued a non-aligned politics, but also he notably supported Cuban revolutionaries and attacked right wing authoritarian leaders (Franco, Salazar, Pinochet).