this is why I believe in revolution.
Without the intention to brag, I must confess that my blog have quite alot of trafic. Around 70-80 visitors from all around world, some from Europe, some from the US and surprisingly enough a few from dictator run countries such as North Korea and Cuba. With the help of some other blogs I can see the how an international movement is taking place. All around the world people are starting to realise that the old retoric with class war, class hatred and so forth are not the way to go. We are all one, and our enemy is a corrupted system, not the individuals.
Many people would call me a radical communist for my belief. Others would call me a social democratic, other would describe me as a anarchist and I refer to myself as a ”free socialist”, meaning that I do not beleive in any socialistic idea before any other. I like the ideals of co-operative owned society such as describre in classic marxistic communist theory. My belief is that every change need to have the support of the people, and that no goverment ever could garantuee a dictatorfree way of govern, therefor I believe in a democratic revolution. I believe in the individual, and dislike the thoughts of humanity as a collective. Therefor I describe myself as a anarchist, but I do have ideals that are shared by all of our socialistic brotherhood. But perhaps it is essential to tell my story and to share why I am a socialist and a international non violent revolutionary.
The origin of my socialistic views comes from my childhood. I grow up in a priveliged upper middle class family, my dad is a nobleman and a professor of law, my mother is a teacher in high school. Both my parents are university educated, both makes around 67 000 dollars a year. Even though our high incomes, my parents bought a farm a bit outside of the academic town Lund. The village where I grow up was a different from the rich academic blocks in Lund. People in my old town are poor, many living of welfare and others are typical working class. During my childhood I saw how the poor families, even though some bright members, would continue to be poor forever. They lacked the ability to adapt into the enviroment in school, therefor they would get lower grades than me since they did not speak ”the academic language”. This would continue throughout their lifes, living simple lifes as farmers and carpenters, mostly because they did not have the right social background. This is one part of the swedish system, family and tradition matters.
My dad is the other reason to why I am a socialist. Even though my family have belonged to the nobility for centuries, we was rather poor in the early 20th century. The reason for this is that we once led the last war against Russia in the 1890-ies which ended in disaster. Part of the Swedish navy was destroyed partly as a result of my great great grandfathers incompetence and all of his wealth was confiscated by the swedish authorities, leaving his children to become poor peasants for the richer classes. In the early 1940-ies however, my grandfather got the ability to become a naval engineer. After a four year long education he started to work at a shipyard in Helsinborg. Even though he got quite a good pay, he would never been able to be for a education for his children. But in the early 1950-s something happened here in Sweden. The workers party (Back then they actually supported the working class) opened up universities run be the state and also created something called ”CSN”, which barrowed money to young people without rich parents. My dad as one of their first customers and educated himself to become a lawyer. After a few years as a judge, he wrote his phd-thesis and eventually became a professor of law.
My families journey from rich, to the most poor back to the rich would not have been possibly in a country such as a america. According to me this is a system that everyone benefits from, the best education goes to the best students and not to the students with the best ability to pay their tution. Even though there a side to it, as I previously described, atleast everybody get's a somewhat fair shot at a university education. According to me, Sweden is one of the countries in the world where socialism have finally succeeded in the struggle for change.
Many of my countrymen feel that the world is a good place and lives inside a bubble where they think that most countries works the same way as Sweden, and that in countries that does not work the same way things are good anyway. I for one does not share this belief. According to me, we live in a equal world, where the rich keeps getting richer and the poor keeps getting poorer. A man smarter than me once said ”A society should not be judged by how far they have advanced in technology, wealth or military. The only way to judge a society, is to look on how it treats it's weakest” and this is an idea I truly supports. According to me, humanity is on the brink of a breakthrough but before we reach this extra mile we need to change our systems. We can no longer look on people with a socialdarwinistic thought pattern and say that my family become rich beacuse of the fact that we are more adapalbe than others. We can no longer condone a system where 99% procent of the world live in ignorance and poverty due the economic oppression of the ones with money. The only way for our society to make progress, to take the next giant leap forward is if we give up on the ideals that once shaped feodality and instead embrace the ideal of freedom for all. And this belief is why I am a international, non violent, anarchistic political revolutionary.
