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I think most people would consider the Myrdal couple winners in the battle regarding eugenics, which were proponents of a strain of thought they called 'social
by cess11 1y ago
I think most people would consider the Myrdal couple winners in the battle regarding eugenics, which were proponents of a strain of thought they called 'social hygiene' that was the main opposition to the eugenicists. One outcome was that the social democrats started to financially strangle the eugenicist institutions.
Swedish diplomats and politicians did quite a bit in international politics during large portions of the 1900s, and the country spawned some quite successful corporations and innovations. Dag Hammarskjöld, Folke Bernadotte, Nobel dynamite, Ericsson telecom, things like that.