- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
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.



So you mean it’s both nationalist and socialist?
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).
Nah, I got the joke, just wanted to still go onto a tangent.