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This is not really true. Only 100-70 years ago Sweden was a very classist society with quite severe internal conflicts (workers were gunned down by the militar
by itmag 15y ago
This is not really true.
Only 100-70 years ago Sweden was a very classist society with quite severe internal conflicts (workers were gunned down by the military in an incident in the 30s for instance).
In the 17th century Sweden was an imperialist country dedicated to the bloody wars of several ambitious kings (Gustav II, Karl XII, etc). Supposedly some people in Germany still warn their kids of the Swedes...
So my point is that Scandinavia was not always a peace-loving hippie region dedicated to sensible socialism-light. That stuff is quite recent.
- anamax 15y agoAnd during that time, were Swedes productive and so on? If so, that's evidence for the "Swedes can make any system work" theory.
- itmag 15y agoYeah, they were productive. At mayhem and conquest :)
- Florin_Andrei 15y ago> That stuff is quite recent. Any sensible, rational "stuff" is recent, anywhere in the world. Until very recently, no country or culture were good places to be.