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It-bolaget Mullvads grundare donerade fem miljoner – till parti som vill se ”storskalig återvandring”

Daniel Berntsson, founder of Mullvad, gave a personal donation of 5 million SEK (roughly 450,000€) in 2025 to Örebropartiet. This enormous donation accounted for 72% of the party’s revenue in 2025.

How does this affect Mullvad’s legitimacy as a company advocating for a free and open internet, while also funding a political party whose agenda seem to contradict these values? The official party website (in Swedish) can be found via the link below.

https://orebropartiet.se/om-oss/

    • mumblerfish@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      It is described as that, but I have doubts that any “left” tendencies in there is just to make facism more effective. As I remember a pod episode of the head of that party, then he talks about how Marx described workers as alienated cogs in a machine, basically, and that we should use that by controlled sterilization of immigrants turn their offspring into cogs for the swedish industry/society. Sort of. I don’t know if that really could be classified as a continuation of Marxist thought, but sure.

      • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2 months ago

        Not at all. Socialism can be non-Marxist (because socialism more broadly entails social ownership of the economy). Social democracy does not necessarily entail that. Like most ideologies, it supports greater equity, though to a significantly greater extent than non-socialist and non-social democrat philosophies.

        A (far-)right-wing party by definition is extremely unlikely to be Marxist, as Marxism focuses on class conflict in the context of a wealthy and reactionary business elite. And the far-right and right typically are strong allies of those.

        I’m also not certain what kind of nationalism the party holds - whether it’s a relatively inclusive civic form, as in early modern France or proudness of their focus on social wellbeing – or ethnonationalistic (which is more concerning, as it has a much bigger potential to steer into outright hatred).