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Mullvad founder donated 5 million SEK to populist Örebro party (www.flamman.se)

submitted 5 days ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to c/privacy@lemmy.ca

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Daniel Berntsson, founder of Mullvad, gave a personal donation of 5 million SEK (roughly 450,000€) in 2025 to Örebropartiet. This enormous donation accounted for 72% of the party’s revenue in 2025.

How does this affect Mullvad’s legitimacy as a company advocating for a free and open internet, while also funding a political party whose agenda seem to contradict these values? The official party website (in Swedish) can be found via the link below.

https://orebropartiet.se/om-oss/

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[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Note for people: the party is described as both left- and right-populist, with nationalist and Marxist tendencies.

[–] mjr@infosec.pub 25 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

So you mean it's both nationalist and socialist? I think I've heard of parties like that somewhere before.

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Not at all. Socialism can be non-Marxist (because socialism more broadly entails social ownership of the economy). Social democracy does not necessarily entail that. Like most ideologies, it supports greater equity, though to a significantly greater extent than non-socialist and non-social democrat philosophies.

A (far-)right-wing party by definition is extremely unlikely to be Marxist, as Marxism focuses on class conflict, recognising the dangers of a wealthy and reactionary business elite to the labourers. And the far-right and right typically are strong allies of those.

I'm also not certain what kind of nationalism the party holds - whether it's a relatively inclusive civic form, as in early modern France or proudness of their focus on social wellbeing -- or ethnonationalistic (which is more concerning, as it has a much bigger potential to steer into outright hatred).

[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 days ago

Nah, I got the joke, just wanted to still go onto a tangent.

[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It is described as that, but I have doubts that any "left" tendencies in there is just to make facism more effective. As I remember a pod episode of the head of that party, then he talks about how Marx described workers as alienated cogs in a machine, basically, and that we should use that by controlled sterilization of immigrants turn their offspring into cogs for the swedish industry/society. Sort of. I don't know if that really could be classified as a continuation of Marxist thought, but sure.

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah, that guy sounds insane.

[–] Quokka@quokk.au 8 points 4 days ago

What Marxist policies does it promote?