On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:58:21 -0400 (EDT) Michael Pollak
<mpollak at panix.com> writes:
>
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Wojtek S wrote:
>
> > The second phenomenon is that welfare statism, which has
> traditionally
> > appealed to the working class, has been all but abandoned by the
> left
> > and became esposed by right win nationalist parties, at least in
> EU.
>
> Could you give some examples of a European right wing party
> supporting
> some aspect of the welfare state more than it's corresponding left?
I think there are some examples of that in the Scandinavian countries. In some of the recent election campaigns in those countries, far right parties have run on platforms calling for the preservation of social welfare benefits for citizens (as opposed to immigrants) of those countries. In that way, it seems the far right can get the best of both worlds. They get electoral support from workers who areconcerned about holding on to the welfare state and who can see that the traditional social democratic parties have gone neoliberal on them, and the far right gets the support of the nativists, who dislike the welfare state because it is seen as helping "foreigners" at their expense. If we could imagine the GOP in this country championing the preservation of social welfare programs like Medicare and Medicaid, while promising to preserve them precisely by purging all the "illegals" from them, then we could get some idea of what the far right in Scandinavia and some other European countries has been doing in recent years.
Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math
>
> Michael
> ___________________________________
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
>
____________________________________________________________ Penny Stock Jumping 3000% Sign up to the #1 voted penny stock newsletter for free today! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4e1b2330d60eaf1d32st05vuc