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/240/ Populist Interventions: Örebro Party ft. Malcolm Kyeyune (Patreon)

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2022-02-08 07:01:00
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The first in an occasional series on new initiatives.

We speak to Malcolm Kyeyune of Sweden's Örebro Party about its origins, analysis and goals. Is a new working class politics to be found in direct opposition to the PMC or the 'transferiat'? How does this local party intend to scale up? What sort of issues are on its agenda? And how does it aim to go beyond the impasses of other populist initiatives?

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Fredrik Ekelund

As usual, Malcom really takes me aback. I always feel that his personal resentment gets confused with his political judgement. I do understand his annoyance with meaningless municipal bureaucrats, but I don’t think his model of politics is credible. I know I’ve said this before, but his vicious PMC hatred reflects poorly on himself and makes the project seem incredibly superficial. If you want a credible political project, you should start with a credible subject. Örebropartiet’s heavy focus on Markus and Malcom in combination with this ambivalent attitude towards his own character doesn’t exude that. If the party’s political subject is a nurse in Örebro, then it should be run by a nurse in Örebro. Not by an academic in Uppsala with an incredibly sharp tongue and doomsday loving outlook.

Iro Kalogeropoulou

He is himself a podcaster. And an annoyingly smug on top. The irony seems lost on him.. Also, yes, Islamist private schools are an issue in Sweden, but not close to the issue of the English school franchise which is a scandalous disgrace on every possible level.

Fredrik Ekelund

Question to the Bunga boys: how do you understand Malcom's rejection of the concept of culture war? If I understand him correctly, he believes that a meaningful and relevant chunk of material politics hides behind this term. Do you agree? Any evidence to back this up?

Olgiert

To be honest, I find it quite hard to take Malcolm seriously, lots of what he does (including his resentment fuelled sparring with ex colleagues) just looks like trolling. His analysis is a bit flawed in my view too. He fails to outline that there are massive divisions within the middle class, and that's what's driving a lot or the conflict we see that he describes. Its not "PMCs vs the workers," but more like "PMCs vs the traditional Middle class" (daily mail readers etc). Workers largely don't participate in politics today - I don't deny that PMCs are partly to blame for that (off-putting wokeism), but the culture war as I understand it is just a civil war within the politically active Middle classes. Also, how does his vision of a new kind of localism as an alternative to existing dominant parties factor in the globalised economy? Its precisely the pressures induced by this global economy which have moved the Swedish social Democrats ever further towards left neoliberalism after the death of Olof Palme. His anti PMC politics has a huge gaping hole by ignoring this. The global economy has in effect forced the Swedish social Democrats to undertake light austerity too in local governments, which of course is highly unpopular and explains why the swedish democrats (who characterise themselves as pro welfare state!) are getting more popular. How would his politics deal with those pressures?

Red Shmoo

This guy’s class politics are very mixed up. What? The workers and blesséd job creators on one side versus the social media account monitors and those on the dole? Lol

Gary

How are they funded?

Mykolas

Have to agree with the other comments, and I may be repeating what others have said, but hard not to be sceptical about this guy. I may be wrong but the leading names of the formation seem like disgruntled members of the same "transferiat" class that they set themselves up against so harshly, and a lot of this looks like vying for positions. Not unlike the left of which he is such a huge adversary, Kyeyune seems to very dubiously style himself as the REAL representative of the real working class, while also being a tad resistant to aknowleding his own class position and interests. Also, doesn't designating the "PMC" or "the transferiat" as the main political enemy mean that, for lack of a better way of putting it, capitalists are no longer the main political enemy? Leaves some room for tought there for sure. Lastly, Örebro's actual policies seem to be, to saythe least, incredibly milquetoast, just some mild localist redistribution. On the whole, somehow doubt that this is IT, the way to go after the failure of the current left.

Red Shmoo

Guy dripping invective towards the PMC boasts of his party’s tedious recruitment policy which ironically is indistinguishable from the tedious interview process by which the PMC are hired.

Poca Voglia

Mmm this person just seems really upset he didn't get his rightful place in the PMC/thoughtful middle class. This whole specular reversal of idiotic leftism is completely useless IMHO, it does not gets the job done, it just gives the left some perfect strawman to uselessy rage against in an infinite back and forth loop. That being said i hope to hear even more episodes shitting on the PMC and middle class leftists, just with better material.

Justin S

Whew! Subscriber base absolutely malding at this one

Shatner's Bassoon

Also, just to stick my oar in, why should the transferiat consist only of annoying woke university graduates who do useless jobs working for NGOs or the government? Shouldn't it also include everyone whose wages are paid by the state, such as (in most Western states) doctors, nurses, teachers, the police, the army, civil servants, binmen, etc.? If you're going to make the transferiat your class enemy, you're going to find yourself without many friends quite soon. (And that's without taking into account workers whose wages are in effect paid out of transfers within the private sector itself, such as truckers, warehouse workers, customer service personnel, managers - i.e. everyone not directly involved in the production of value in the commodity form - but that's a whole other Marxoid discussion ...)

Bernhard Pirkl

Please have sex Malcolm I’m begging you

Ghost Runner

This transferiet thing is a very narrow basis on which to oppose capitalism. More nurses, fine, but that is a budget debate. How is it not another form of liberalism? The non-productive worker is largely the reserve army of labour. He seems to lead just another sectarian group that is insular in its own way and didactic. Also, not many new immigrants to a country do not have a percentage of young people joining gangs. It's nothing new or unexpected within a liberal capitalist state. George, it is fine to be sympathetic with his outlook but all guests should be challenged.

Незнайка

Ouch. That hurt. As a member of a "transferiat class" myself, I hope that comrades in the comments will find enough courage to recognize our common class position and become a class for itself that wilo fight for our abolishment into classless society through antagonizing the working class to action. Come on Markus, don't be so harsh on us. We still have bosses and hate our jobs. Also, I can't even install games on my work computer, have to play fuckin mahjong and slither.io every day and that's fuckin alienating! When I was working at a coffee shop, I had at least Civilization there. World is not black and white. We also suffer under capitalism!

dshamz_

I think Phil is right to scoff at a lot of the criticism come from the existing left, but I'm not so sure we should just uncritically acceptt the notion that the majority of truckers are working class. That they may be in the lower strata of the petit-bourgeoisie as independent owner-operators is no reason to spurn them, as those in danger of proletarianization can be won over as important allies to workers, while nevertheless being in a different position than proletarianized workers themselves. Their position is more akin to an Uber driver. I hope it's clear that I'm not saying this to be dismissive, I just think it's important to be real about where an owner-operator's class interests converge with a proletarianized trucker and where they might diverge. Alex makes a good point about the ideologically heterogenous nature of the protests - the very reasonable demand to end the mandate is mixed in with a whole bunch of other conspiratorial stuff. I think, though, that without organized leadership from the working class, the leadership that would step in was bound to be those with the money and those with an already-coherent perspective, like the antivaxxers, white nationalists, anti-public healthcare activists, etc. Still, that obviously doesn't mean the base is bad or shouldn't be contested by the left, if workers are among them.

john edman ansell

Hey Bunga! Why would you bring this guy on? There is lots of credible leftist podcasters and activist in Sweden. Malcolm isn’t worth anyone’s time. His take on Swedish political history is just off by a country mile. He is only known for joining an alt right think tank.

john edman ansell

Also fact check this guy. He is straight up spreading right wing talking points.

dshamz_

To build on critiques that others have put forward here, in replacing the bourgeoisie with the ‘transferriat’ as the main enemy of workers, there seems to be a lack of analysis of the way that these people actually fit into strategies of accumulation by the bourgeoisie. I’m sure the reality is contradictory, but it seems to me pretty clear that this group exists as a result of the interests of capitalists to accumulate as much as the state - it is a capitalist state after all. To skirt this question is to leave a pretty serious gap in the analysis. The notion that they are ‘merely’ parasitical let’s them, and the capitalists, off the hook way too easy.