The news from Denmark made me think back on the shit that went down in Norway 11 years ago, and holy fuck-
You had a roided up thumb failson calling himself a Knight Templar and fancying himself as a protector of white Christendom blowing up bombs near a government building in the capital to distract from his intended target, a summer camp for the youth wing of the local soc dem party held on a nearby island where he went around shooting and killing 70+ children like fish in a barrel dressed as a policeman.
Like no, he didn't attack government officials or politicians only targeting government buildings as a feint* he specifically wanted to kill children who he thought were communists
*His primary target was apparently the former leader of the dem soc party who had left the island by the time he arrived
:desolate:
I seem to remember that Breivik claimed he was part of some larger "Templar" organisation, whatever happened to that thread 👁️
Also, the whole incident was a bit awkward for every anti-Muslim cryptofash "immigration critical" politician and """"intellectual"""" in Europe as he had basically quoted every single one of them in his manifesto
Actually this is kind of my primary intellectual dilemma recently. I've kinda strayed from the anti-socdem sentiment you see online a lot, especially on here.
I no longer fully buy that social democracy is as simple as a pro-capitalist concession to socialists. It IS a concession, but it was still won from militant socialist worker organizing. That's how anyone gets anything. Vietnam got national liberation and an experiment in communism, Norway and almost every European country got some form of welfare state.
As for the comfort thing you mention - the slow privatization of the welfare state has definitely been met with some radicalization. I wouldn't be super optimistic or anything, I think it's a similar situation as the US, just that these countries started the situation with a welfare state that the population is fiercely defensive of compared to anything you can be defensive of in the US. Honestly you can take the US or UK political situation and with some minor alterations more or less understand every western country's political situation:
Left lost power continuously since the 70s/80s,
Capitalist end of history sets in,
2008-and onwards shows some ugly side of capitalism and radicalizes people,
2020 and COVID happens and radicalization goes up even more.
...all meanwhile racial fascist elements have grown twice as fast.