The new totalitarians by Roland Huntford (PDF)

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⭐This book made a huge impression on me when I read it as a young socialistic liberal in my mid 20’s still enamored with the much-touted “benevolent socialism” of the “Scandinavian system”. Huntford, a historian best known for his work on polar exploration, took a polemical detour with “The New Totalitarians” to write a blistering critique of the Swedish system, which he derided as soulless “soft totalitarianism” more akin to Huxley’s _Brave New World_ than the Stalinist monstrosities in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union at the time. Scathing and unsentimental, Huntford painstakingly and angrily documents how the Swedish system, which was presented unequivocally by most on the Left as proof positive that “socialism works”, did little more than create a sterile, spiritually barren society populated by a docile, hyperconformist populace. With the “Swedish experiment” now seemingly in the final stages of unraveling as it reaches increasingly bizarre and cartoonish extremes in its reach for egalitarianism while simultaneously being assaulted with massive waves of unassimilable Third World immigrants, this book is proving to be not only prescient, but also timely as well. It’s too bad that it is out of print with the available copies seemingly only available for a vastly inflated price, but a copy should be available from a decent university library.

⭐Title, highly recommended reading for anyone interested in the topic. Dont listen to the one star guy who refused to listen to different ideas and shows his ignorance on the subject.

⭐The author has/had no idea what totalitarianism is. The book is just run-of-the-mill, ordinary garden variety conservative/paranoid rubbish about liberalism and the European version, social democracy. By the way, Sweden was never totalitarian and remains a capitalist democracy. Swedes have freedom of speech, press, and religion. Private property and the rule of law. For totalitarianism, see Germany under Hitler, North Korea under Trump-friend Kim Jong Un, the Soviet Union and the direction Trump-friend Putin is taking Russia now, and China, which under Xi Xing Peng is getting more and more totalitarian by the month. “Sweden is totalitarian” is what some people call an “alternative fact.” Dishonest.

⭐A brilliant book. Huntford’s insights have come to fruition and not just in Sweden, but in Scandinavia at large. The heart of the question becomes, what is the proper balance of freedom and individual thought vs. security provided by a government which takes over those responsibilities. Huntford maps how this happened in Sweden, how the Swedes over centuries, have been lulled into sleepwalking and what they have lost in the process of giving up the living of their lives to a “benevolent” bureaucracy making life’s decisions for them. A great read and never more appropriate than the present, as the Swedish government mandates an immigration policy with which most Swedes are unable to cope.

⭐Sven send me your copy. Sounds like a great book. I always love books that lefties hate

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