[Fwd: Social democracy betrayed -- Le Monde diplomatique]

[Enrique Diaz-Alvarez]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> Seth Ackerman wrote:
> 
> >There is undoubtedly a global order enforced by the Pentagon. How Sweden
> >benefits from that any more than China does is not clear to me. Sweden
> >is not even part of NATO.
> 
> Swedish multinationals have long enjoyed bigtime foreign profits which
> helped pay for the welfare state. Those multinationals would have a much
> harder time of it if it weren't for the Pentagon making the world safe for
> foreign investment.
> 
> Doug

How big is bigtime? What fraction of Swedish welfare expenses are
profits extracted by Swedish multinationals outside the first world?

Order of magnitude will do.

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