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• W1587617551 abstract "DURING THE LATTER HALF of the twentieth century, Sweden's international image, especially in the so-called English-speaking world, was dominated to great degree by impressions of its welfare state policies and the belief that it was sexually libertine society. In British circles, especially those of the political Left, this was generally but by no means always the case until the 1960s as litanies of praise reverberated in numerous periodicals. In 1971, however, Roland Huntford, the Stockholm correspondent of The Observer, issued dissenting opinion in his book The New Totalitarians, scathing indictment of the Swedish welfare state that interpreted it as the embodiment of the dystopian society Aldous Huxley had envisaged in Brave New World forty years earlier. Huntford's disturbing portrait of contemporary Sweden, in which he described the alleged sacrificing of individual freedom on the altar of social security, was published in both London and New York. It alarmed numerous reviewers and caused intense resentment and heated debate in the Swedish press and government. Indeed, partly out of fear that Huntford's critique could damage Sweden's reputation overseas, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs conducted research into the reactions of citizens whom he had quoted, an administrative exercise intended to undermine the credibility of his book. Though long out of print, The New Totalitarians has not been forgotten. Excerpts from it continue to pepper right-wing websites as guardians of conservative social order draw verbal missiles from the arsenal of Huntford's alarmist text and hurl those dire warnings against various advocates of liberal reform. The underlying premise in their rhetorical strategy is that Sweden offers living proof that the social welfare state effectively erodes personal freedom and must therefore be avoided at all costs. Yet this volume has attracted very little scholarly attention since the controversy it engendered in the early 1970s. It is my intention in the present article to take steps toward filling that lacuna by analyzing in their historical context both the crux of Huntford's argument and the nature of the evidence he adduced to support it and then considering the variety of scholarly and political reactions the book elicited in Sweden. (1) While the volley that Huntford shot across the bow of the Swedish welfare state was fundamentally new kind of assault, it was fired against the backdrop of nearly four decades of positive British commentary about the Social Democratic accomplishment in Sweden and somewhat briefer and narrower, though by the 1960s clearly growing, tradition of highlighting its less savory consequences. Within three years of the Social Democratic accession under Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson in 1932, news of remarkable recovery from the ills of prolonged economic recession filtered back to the United Kingdom, where, under Conservative leadership, the economy was generally making much slower headway in coping with corresponding woes and m some chronically depressed regions of the country virtually none. From time to time, the nascent Swedish model was adduced by both members of the moderate Left and Fabian socialists as lucid example of the way forward, beacon which could lead the British economy out of its stagnation. In one typical early encomium to the achievements of the Social Democratic administration, George Soloveytchik wrote in The New Statesman and Nation in 1936 that the recent economic miracle in Sweden could be reasonably attributed to combination of factors. Nature had blessed the country abundantly, he observed, but in his view much of the credit for this Scandinavian Wirtschaftswunder nevertheless went to the interventionist policies of Hansson's government. Its approach, he averred, had nurtured the emergence of a middle way between collectivism and individual free enterprise giving Sweden unique example of controlled capitalism that works (795-6). …" @default.
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