Stieg Larsson....socialist?

[RadioRaheem84]

I've been reading on Stieg Larsson and it seems as though he was a socialist writer exposing the hidden right wing elements in his native land of Sweden. He was a part of the Communist Workers League too.

Any thoughts? Seems like a good comrade.

[Absolut]

According to Wikipedia, he left the Communist Workers League (today its called the Socialist Party) in the 80's because he didnt want to endorse foreign socialist regimes with a questionable dedication to democracy. Dont know if its true though, its on Wikipedia and has no source to it.

He was also editor of the Trotskyist theoretical journal Fjärde Internationalen.

Other than that, he seems like a decent enough guy. Someone else might have more info on it, I just checked out Wikipedia.

[Sasha]

i dont know what kind of leftist he was exactly (trotskyst, syndicalist etc etc) but he was the editor of EXPO, the swedish antifascist research/intelligence magazine.

so he was an valuble comrade for sure.

[Obs]

Decent communist, subpar writer.

[Sentinel]

I had no idea about this, I diffusely knew that he was an anti-racist but not that he had been with the socialist party and all. I started reading 'Men that hate women' back when everybody was reading that series, but got interrupted by something else. Maybe I should give it another chance.

It should be known about Larsson that his Millenium-books, which made him properly 'famous', were published first after his death. Would have been awesome to have such a communist celebrity here. :(

[RadioRaheem84]

Sentinel, I surprised me that there even are such extreme right wing elements in Sweden at all. Larson did a good job of exposing them.

[Absolut]

Sentinel, I surprised me that there even are such extreme right wing elements in Sweden at all. Larson did a good job of exposing them.

Sure there are. Heres an article on their most recent (major) engagement, as well as some other stuff, if you scroll down and check out the comments. You may have heard about this though.

Nazis attempt murder on SAC members (http://libcom.org/forums/news/nazis-attempt-murder-sac-members-04122008)

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

Sentinel, I surprised me that there even are such extreme right wing elements in Sweden at all. Larson did a good job of exposing them.

It wasn't very "hidden" that there was a fairly sizeable neo-nazi movement, it was more its connections here and there that were new and just who they were. I think it had a peak somewhere around the mid-1990's (guess it has been growing for a while again now). Going around an average Swedish city, chances are pretty good you will find some xenophobic nationalist or outright Nazi propaganda on street light poles, thankfully they can often be rather easily scraped off due to the usage of some pretty low-quality glue, but they also will put up new ones pretty fast in some areas.

Regarding his books however, I must say, they are extremely bad. I had the misfortune of reading them all three, out of boredom, and they are not particularly political save references to a far-right cold-war era conspiracy of Security services personnel and other more fleeting references, certainly not worth going through the entire books for.

[Tavarisch_Mike]

I think ive heard some time that Larsson said in his younger days that he absolutly was a trott, but im not sure. Hes grandfather was a antifascist and a communist who was sent to the labour camp "storsien" up in the far north, this is a verry unknown part of our history in Sweden, that we actually had labour camps where the purpose was to "cure reds". Many of the comrades who went to Spain to fight in the international brigades where later sent to this camps. Stieg Larsson was also involved in some guerilla movment in Eritrea that i dont know so much about.

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

I think ive heard some time that Larsson said in his younger days that he absolutly was a trott, but im not sure. Hes grandfather was a antifascist and a communist who was sent to the labour camp "storsien" up in the far north, this is a verry unknown part of our history in Sweden, that we actually had labour camps where the purpose was to "cure reds". Many of the comrades who went to Spain to fight in the international brigades where later sent to this camps. Stieg Larsson was also involved in some guerilla movment in Eritrea that i dont know so much about.

Sorry to be off-topic, but I'd like to know more about this. I've heard references to "the mines", but I've never actually read anything about this, do you know any more?

[Tavarisch_Mike]

Sorry to be off-topic, but I'd like to know more about this. I've heard references to "the mines", but I've never actually read anything about this, do you know any more?

Sorry thats about all i got. :(

[aty]

Yes he was a socialist, he trained the left wing guerilla in Eritrea "Eritrean People’s Liberation Front". He did military service in Sweden and then he went to train guerillas in Africa.

[mo7amEd]

Yes, I believe that he was a communist. He even wrote in his will that his heritage will go to a communist party (I think it was rättvisepartiet socialisterna or something), but there was a legal dispute where his heirs demanded everything. The party didn't take anything because they though it would be wrong.



It should be known about Larsson that his Millenium-books, which made him properly 'famous', were published first after his death. Would have been awesome to have such a communist celebrity here. :(

I think the reason he wrote them was to live of them for his pension or something and were ment to be released until in a late age. He began in the fourth of the millennium books, but never finished. I didn't read his books but watched the movies (1st and 2nd only) and they were boring as hell. I'll try to see the last part one day.