cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8915892
(original article in Swedish that reported this)
Posting this because I hadn’t heard about it before and I’m probably not the only Mullvad user here, so might as well.
The party claims to stand for a “class-conscious populism” which according to party leader Markus Allard takes inspiration from marxist ideology and unites the “productive” classes of society against the “Transferiat”, with the “Transferiat” being a term coined by Allard to describe the classes of society that lives off transfers that are a net negative for society such as those who, despite having an ability to work, live off social welfare benefits, as well as those who work “made-up services”[…]
The party differs from modern day left-wing parties by seeing the working class as co-dependent with people working in enterprise and business and instead sees the classes that “live off transfers”, as specified, as a large economic net-negative and an obstacle for a functional society.
Their ideology is nonsense fake-marxist revisionism to redirect anger at capitalism and turn it against immigrants and people who need social welfare (though they do back some generally left oriented social policies, their main thing appears to be racism)
Even if you’re comfortable with funding this, it still begs the question of just how trustworthy Mullvad actually is.
I guess this still beats any of the dozens of Israeli VPNs that definitely spy on you, but it’s not great
from what i’m reading mullvard “distances” themselves from the decision of one of their dude’s PRIVATE decision to donate to that party. but dude’s still part of the team 🤔 i wonder if that will put pressure on them. i wanna see if they fire him or nah.
“comfortable” that’s moralization. and whether they are trustworthy or not, we can’t know. you would have to look at every single one of their members and what motivates them. if it’s purely for the moneyz, they will be easily bought. but the dude deciding to donate money to a political party could be out of ignorance or a strategic move. we’ve seen what happens w ppl that try to up-one w/e political party is in office, the hackers are bought and begin to work for intelligence services or they have to flee from country to country and go through one million hoops to avoid being found. but these are just assumptions.
if anyone wants to do the research of every single person that constitutes the mullvard corp., that would be a starting point but otherwise…
it’s the same w political parties. idk their motivations or ulterior motives. idk if they’re co-opting socialist language like the fascists or “third positionists” historically have done. that “left nor right” phrase that they use is what milei did here. either way, if they’re genuine, not providing safety nets will backfire on them.