--- title: 'The New Totalitarians' url: 'https://samisdat.in/blog/the-new-totalitarians' markdown: 'https://samisdat.in/blog/the-new-totalitarians.md' lang: en date: '2019-05-25' description: 'Roland Huntford The New Totalitarians (1971) Some notes and highlights from the book. Download The New Totalitarians "Analyzes the political and social climate of early 1970s Sweden, and argues that it resembles a benevolent totalitarian state in the mould of Aldous Huxley''s Brave New World." "…' taxonomy: category: - blog tag: - communism - sweden - socialism - '1984' - totalitarianism - scandinavia - 'brave new world' - orwell - huxley - book --- # [The New Totalitarians](https://samisdat.in/blog/the-new-totalitarians) 25th May 2019 [communism](https://samisdat.in/blog/tag:communism#body-wrapper) [sweden](https://samisdat.in/blog/tag:sweden#body-wrapper) [socialism](https://samisdat.in/blog/tag:socialism#body-wrapper) [1984](https://samisdat.in/blog/tag:1984#body-wrapper) [totalitarianism](https://samisdat.in/blog/tag:totalitarianism#body-wrapper) [scandinavia](https://samisdat.in/blog/tag:scandinavia#body-wrapper) [brave new world](https://samisdat.in/blog/tag:brave%20new%20world#body-wrapper) [orwell](https://samisdat.in/blog/tag:orwell#body-wrapper) [huxley](https://samisdat.in/blog/tag:huxley#body-wrapper) [book](https://samisdat.in/blog/tag:book#body-wrapper) # Roland Huntford ## The New Totalitarians (1971) Some notes and highlights from the book. - Download [The New Totalitarians](https://samisdat.in/books/the-new-totalitarians-1974) "Analyzes the political and social climate of early 1970s Sweden, and argues that it resembles a benevolent totalitarian state in the mould of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World." ![Image 1 - 1_960688552559501312.jpg](https://samisdat.in/images/2/1/b/9/3/21b93a116d676100d5f7390279ef02503cbbebdf-1960688552559501312.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 2 - 2_960688552559501312.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/2_960688552559501312.jpg?g-16018011) "All that stands between ourselves and Sweden is a certain protective shell granted by the Western European heritage. But it is fragile, and it is being eroded from within and without. To watch present Swedes may be to watch our future selves." ![Image 3 - 3_982377507679850496.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/3_982377507679850496.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 4 - 4_982377507679850496.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/4_982377507679850496.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 5 - 5_982377507679850496.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/5_982377507679850496.jpg?g-16018011) "The true distinction of the Swedes is not that they have successfully married technology and man, but that they have done so with so little apparent difficulty." "Even today Sweden resembles some retarded society hurriedly assimilating a stronger civilization." ![Image 6 - 6_982381985552314373.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/6_982381985552314373.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 7 - 7_982381985552314373.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/7_982381985552314373.jpg?g-16018011) 'The changes in the sexual behaviour of the Swedes was a matter of official direction. Sex had become the vicarious passion of a society trapped in boredom and “engineered consent”.' - Wikipedia: [The New Totalitarians](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Totalitarians) - Wikipedia: [Roland Huntford](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Huntford) ![Image 8 - 8_982385483312451592.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/8_982385483312451592.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 9 - 9_982385483312451592.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/9_982385483312451592.jpg?g-16018011) This is a fascinating book, especially since I lived in Sweden 2011-2014, bicycled back to the UK via Denmark, taking two ferries. "Clearly, the Swedish attitude, by creating acquiescent subjects, is more favourable to strong government; it is particularly useful when rapid social changes have to be carried out." Sweden wanted Catholic newcomers after WW2 to turn Protestant so as "to become good Swedes". ![Image 10 - 10_982392138142048259.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/10_982392138142048259.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 11 - 11_982392138142048259.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/11_982392138142048259.jpg?g-16018011) "Today, a Swede will most often show the same reluctance to suffer for an idea as his sixteenth-century predecessor...If any Swedes were anxious for the martyr's crown, their rulers were unwilling to oblige." Long-term pacing in politics gets the desired outcome! Just like EU. ![Image 12 - 12_982394648223154178.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/12_982394648223154178.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 13 - 13_982394648223154178.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/13_982394648223154178.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 14 - 14_982394648223154178.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/14_982394648223154178.jpg?g-16018011) Until 1970, when adopting a religion was made voluntary, all Swedes were automatically born into the State Church, whatever the convictions of their parents. Until 1952 anybody wanting to leave the had to submit to a personal examination by the clergy who could refuse. ![Image 15 - 15_982396538029772800.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/15_982396538029772800.jpg?g-16018011) "Liberals of the nineteenth century to the Social Democrats of the 1960s, have been able to execute rapid and often uncomfortable changes virtually unopposed, it is because conformity has been made a cardinal virtue, and dissent a mortal sin." ![Image 16 - 16_982398015628603394.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/16_982398015628603394.jpg?g-16018011) The duplicitous traitor to Napoleon, General Baptiste Bernadotte ascended the Swedish throne as Charles-John and by switching sides gained Norway. All subsequent monarchs are descended from him, and the present royal house of Sweden still bears his name. - [Charles XIV John of Sweden](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_XIV_John_of_Sweden) ![Image 17 - 17_982411405520461825.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/17_982411405520461825.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 18 - 18_982411405520461825.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/18_982411405520461825.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 19 - 19_982411405520461825.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/19_982411405520461825.jpg?g-16018011) The concept of individuality and the development of personality have been grossly retarded down the centuries. The Swede never emerged from behind the veil of the group & preserved untouched a devotion to hierarchical order & an unprecedented devotion to corporate organization. ![Image 20 - 20_982413671463882752.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/20_982413671463882752.jpg?g-16018011) "Swedes share with Russians the distinction of undeveloped individuality. Escaping the discovery of the individual, the Swedes continued to think and act in groups. Today a Swedish educational official can say, 'We are not interested in a man's personality, only in his actions'" ![Image 21 - 21_982417441920897024.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/21_982417441920897024.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 22 - 22_982417441920897024.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/22_982417441920897024.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 23 - 23_982417441920897024.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/23_982417441920897024.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 24 - 24_982417441920897024.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/24_982417441920897024.jpg?g-16018011) "Sweden was, until the 1950s, a mainly peasant land, it was because of a unique form of industrial organization. This was the bruk, an industrial settlement lying away from the towns, out in the countryside. There were hundreds spread over central and southern Sweden." ![Image 25 - 25_982421328203481088.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/25_982421328203481088.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 26 - 26_982421328203481088.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/26_982421328203481088.jpg?g-16018011) Within five years of the end of the war, English replaced German as the principal foreign language, and Sweden was thoroughly Americanized. Culture follows the sword. Uncomfortable with metaphysics, the Swedes are genuine materialists in a way that it is hard to match elsewhere. ![Image 27 - 27_982423040943443968.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/27_982423040943443968.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 28 - 28_982423040943443968.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/28_982423040943443968.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 29 - 29_982423040943443968.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/29_982423040943443968.jpg?g-16018011) A planned economy was so obviously successful that, although Socialist policy, it was rapidly accepted by all camps. And therein lies the crucial importance of those years for Sweden. The Swedes were indoctrinated with the ideas of State direction and intervention in the economy. ![Image 30 - 30_983435067296026624.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/30_983435067296026624.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 31 - 31_983435067296026624.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/31_983435067296026624.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 32 - 32_983435067296026624.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/32_983435067296026624.jpg?g-16018011) These extracts explain really well the working culture and mentality of Sweden and why they have been so heavily unionised without the industrial action which plagued so many other countries. ![Image 33 - 33_983443654059724801.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/33_983443654059724801.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 34 - 34_983443654059724801.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/34_983443654059724801.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 35 - 35_983443654059724801.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/35_983443654059724801.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 36 - 36_983443654059724801.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/36_983443654059724801.jpg?g-16018011) Outside Nazi Germany, Sweden was the first country to subsidize fecundity. Until the mid 1930s, Nazism had considerable attractions for those who favoured a benevolent and authoritarian state...Nazi thought, often incognito, permeated Swedish life. Reminds me of Gottfried Feder. ![Image 37 - 37_983446495558029312.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/37_983446495558029312.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 38 - 38_983446495558029312.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/38_983446495558029312.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 39 - 39_983446495558029312.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/39_983446495558029312.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 40 - 40_983446495558029312.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/40_983446495558029312.jpg?g-16018011) Swedish Social Democrats can trace a direct and undefiled descent from Marx himself. It is enough to mention the continuous reference to "progress", as some kind of independent, motive force. A reform is sufficiently justified if it is said to be in line with "progress".' ![Image 41 - 41_983449731639767040.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/41_983449731639767040.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 42 - 42_983449731639767040.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/42_983449731639767040.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 43 - 43_983449731639767040.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/43_983449731639767040.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 44 - 44_983449731639767040.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/44_983449731639767040.jpg?g-16018011) It is because of the peculiar nature of her political and social institutions that Sweden has achieved things out of all proportion to her size. But perhaps the most valuable asset of Swedish industry is that its workers have been historically conditioned to think in groups. ![Image 45 - 45_983453347905785856.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/45_983453347905785856.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 46 - 46_983453347905785856.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/46_983453347905785856.jpg?g-16018011) 🇸🇪 Oh dear, what have you done?! 🇪🇺 "The Swedes are jealous of their sovereignty & refuse point blank to renounce one jot of it... Their rulers understand that to open their borders to foreign ideas would be to undermine a unique system that needs isolation for its survival." ![Image 47 - 47_983454984405684224.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/47_983454984405684224.jpg?g-16018011) 🇸🇪 "The Diet did not originate legislation; it passed or rejected measures formulated elsewhere." 🇪🇺 Was this the basis of the plan for The European Union and The EU Parliament? ![Image 48 - 48_983457846707834880.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/48_983457846707834880.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 49 - 49_983457846707834880.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/49_983457846707834880.jpg?g-16018011) Sweden - a central planner's paradise thanks to its compliant citizenry. ![Image 50 - 50_983460564612591617.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/50_983460564612591617.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 51 - 51_983460564612591617.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/51_983460564612591617.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 52 - 52_983460564612591617.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/52_983460564612591617.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 53 - 53_983460564612591617.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/53_983460564612591617.jpg?g-16018011) Another "🇸🇪 Oh dear, what have you done?! 🇪🇺" 'I admire the independence of English bankers,' said Mr Tore Browaldh, sometime managing director of Svenska Handelsbanken, one of the three major Swedish banks, 'but it could never happen here. ![Image 54 - 54_983463898111148033.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/54_983463898111148033.jpg?g-16018011) Like Fascist Italy, Sweden is today a corporate State. No revolution or coup d'etat was necessary; it grew up with modern Sweden and, to the present-day Swede, appears perfectly natural and desirable. ![Image 55 - 55_983470978079567873.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/55_983470978079567873.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 56 - 56_983470978079567873.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/56_983470978079567873.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 57 - 57_983470978079567873.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/57_983470978079567873.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 58 - 58_983470978079567873.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/58_983470978079567873.jpg?g-16018011) 'Our democracy,' to quote the words of Mr Olof Palme, the Social Democratic Prime Minister, 'is a democracy of the popular organizations.' ![Image 59 - 59_983474681490657282.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/59_983474681490657282.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 60 - 60_983474681490657282.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/60_983474681490657282.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 61 - 61_983474681490657282.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/61_983474681490657282.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 62 - 62_983474681490657282.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/62_983474681490657282.jpg?g-16018011) Sweden's a small country, and the whole bureaucratic establishment's also very small - not more than two or three hundred rule the country, and we all know each other. In many ways, the network is the real, if invisible, government of Sweden. ![Image 63 - 63_983478164037959680.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/63_983478164037959680.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 64 - 64_983478164037959680.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/64_983478164037959680.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 65 - 65_983478164037959680.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/65_983478164037959680.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 66 - 66_983478164037959680.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/66_983478164037959680.jpg?g-16018011) Doesn't the above sound just like Ronald Bernard's experience in The Netherlands when he "overstepped his jurisdiction" with the network and got thrown in jail on trumped-up charges? [plugin:youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KumKiCc8dKg) - Watch on youtube: [www.youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KumKiCc8dKg) The business of ruling Sweden is conducted not in parliamentary institutions, but in a kind of secret society. Consensus guides everything, private conversation, intellectual life and the running of the state. "It's the way we like it." ![Image 67 - 67_983486350287671296.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/67_983486350287671296.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 68 - 68_983486350287671296.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/68_983486350287671296.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 69 - 69_983486350287671296.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/69_983486350287671296.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 70 - 70_983486350287671296.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/70_983486350287671296.jpg?g-16018011) Swedes are afraid of owning up to an opinion against the consensus, and for that reason I find it difficult, almost impossible, to get businessmen to speak out. There is a willingness to turn over most issues to collective treatment. ![Image 71 - 71_983489564437295105.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/71_983489564437295105.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 72 - 72_983489564437295105.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/72_983489564437295105.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 73 - 73_983489564437295105.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/73_983489564437295105.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 74 - 74_983489564437295105.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/74_983489564437295105.jpg?g-16018011) In Western countries, the security of the individual derives from the rule of law; but in Sweden it is based on social welfare; welfare enjoys the respect & prestige of the judiciary in England. To the Swede the law is not the protector of the citizen, but the agent of the State. ![Image 75 - 75_984135963109715974.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/75_984135963109715974.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 76 - 76_984135963109715974.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/76_984135963109715974.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 77 - 77_984135963109715974.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/77_984135963109715974.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 78 - 78_984135963109715974.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/78_984135963109715974.jpg?g-16018011) There is a very widespread feeling in Sweden that the judiciary is politically directed, and that it hands down politically coloured judgements. Offences against the State are more serious than those against the person. ![Image 79 - 79_984140435047223296.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/79_984140435047223296.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 80 - 80_984140435047223296.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/80_984140435047223296.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 81 - 81_984140435047223296.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/81_984140435047223296.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 82 - 82_984140435047223296.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/82_984140435047223296.jpg?g-16018011) Acquittal in Swedish criminal cases is rare... Almost all trials take the form of a plea of guilt, qualified with a request for leniency on personal, humanitarian or psychiatric grounds. - [duckduckgo.com](https://duckduckgo.com?ia=web&q=Acquittal%2Bsweden&t=brave) ![Image 83 - 83_984146254027481090.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/83_984146254027481090.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 84 - 84_984146254027481090.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/84_984146254027481090.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 85 - 85_984146254027481090.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/85_984146254027481090.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 86 - 86_984146254027481090.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/86_984146254027481090.jpg?g-16018011) The function of a Swedish court is not to decide whether a suspect is innocent or guilty, but to put evidence on record and decide on a penalty for guilt established by preliminary inquiry. The function of a Swedish court is not to decide whether a suspect is innocent or guilty. ![Image 87 - 87_984148850662309894.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/87_984148850662309894.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 88 - 88_984148850662309894.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/88_984148850662309894.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 89 - 89_984148850662309894.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/89_984148850662309894.jpg?g-16018011) As soon as a suspect is committed for trial, his relations to his attorney change. Until that moment, they work together in the familiar manner to avoid conviction. Afterwards, the lawyer is required by his instincts and professional ethics to help the prosecution... ![Image 90 - 90_984150498361204742.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/90_984150498361204742.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 91 - 91_984150498361204742.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/91_984150498361204742.jpg?g-16018011) As a result of the corporate nature of Sweden, political power is extraordinarily penetrative. Power in this version means not only dominion over the machinery of State, but also direct mastery of the citizen. - Judiciary has been deliberately omitted; means little to the Swede. ![Image 92 - 92_984155560407982080.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/92_984155560407982080.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 93 - 93_984155560407982080.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/93_984155560407982080.jpg?g-16018011) "...the Russians have a word for it: AGITPROP." - [Arbetarnas bildningsförbund (ABF)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbetarnas_bildningsf%C3%B6rbund) (the Workers' Educational Association) is the educational section of the Swedish labour movement. ![Image 94 - 94_984220961431019520.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/94_984220961431019520.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 95 - 95_984220961431019520.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/95_984220961431019520.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 96 - 96_984220961431019520.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/96_984220961431019520.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 97 - 97_984220961431019520.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/97_984220961431019520.jpg?g-16018011) In the last analysis, the purpose of agitprop is that of Orwell's thought police or Huxley's controllers: the control of minds. Under Swedish conditions, absolute control is naturally unattainable, and indeed unnecessary. ![Image 98 - 98_984223238896128000.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/98_984223238896128000.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 99 - 99_984223238896128000.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/99_984223238896128000.jpg?g-16018011) Concerned only with economic security, the Swede is prepared to sacrifice most other things in life. In the country of the affluent, ideology is dead, and politics are a matter of economics alone. - Article on [TRYGGHET](https://qz.com/949064/the-swedish-concept-of-trygghet-explains-why-having-an-erratic-leader-is-so-destabilizing/) ![Image 100 - 100_984225913813569537.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/100_984225913813569537.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 101 - 101_984225913813569537.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/101_984225913813569537.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 102 - 102_984225913813569537.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/102_984225913813569537.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 103 - 103_984225913813569537.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/103_984225913813569537.jpg?g-16018011) Prosperity and standard of living have become words of incantation to invoke the emotions of trygghet. By suitable manipulation, the government has associated a threat to the lesser concepts with danger to the greater one. Often there is no way of expressing oppositional thoughts ![Image 104 - 104_984229679744864257.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/104_984229679744864257.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 105 - 105_984229679744864257.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/105_984229679744864257.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 106 - 106_984229679744864257.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/106_984229679744864257.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 107 - 107_984229679744864257.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/107_984229679744864257.jpg?g-16018011) By the acceptance of economic determinism, the Swede has somehow forsworn all other values. By the reduction of everything to economic terms, awkward issues may be disarmed or persuaded to vanish. ![Image 108 - 108_984232929458118661.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/108_984232929458118661.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 109 - 109_984232929458118661.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/109_984232929458118661.jpg?g-16018011) ![Image 110 - 110_984232929458118661.jpg](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/04.blog/The%20New%20Totalitarians/110_984232929458118661.jpg?g-16018011) --- ## Navigation - Parent: [Blog](https://samisdat.in/blog.md) - Previous: [The Myth Of Moral Relativism](https://samisdat.in/blog/the%20myth%20of%20moral%20relativism.md) - Next: [The Synagogue of Satan](https://samisdat.in/blog/the-synagogue-of-satan.md)