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The Sleeping People
AuthorFredrik Reinfeldt
Original titleDet sovande folket
LanguageSwedish
SubjectPolitics
Published1993
PublisherModerate Youth League
Publication placeSweden
Pages124
ISBN91-86194-10-0

Det sovande folket (Swedish: [deː ˈsôːvandɛ ˈfɔ̌lːkɛt], "The Sleeping People") is a book written in 1993 by Fredrik Reinfeldt, later Prime Minister of Sweden, and published by the Moderate Youth League.

Written when the early 1990s banking crisis was deepest, the book argues for abandoning the general welfare state in Sweden, for sharp tax cuts, and for the rollback of the state's involvement in education, law, culture, and the media:

"The Swedes are mentally handicapped and indoctrinated to believe that politicians can create and guarantee welfare."[1][2][3][4]


"We don't want to see a society where people starve, but other than that no standard rights should be financed by taxes."[4]

In the first chapter the author presents a dystopian vision of the future. Later chapters detail the Moderates' plan of action, its implementation in daily life, and its moral basis. The last chapter presents examples from real life.

After Reinfeldt became the leader of the Moderate Party in 2003, and Prime Minister in 2006, the book was often referred to by his political opponents.

At the 2009 Social Democratic Party congress, the party leader Mona Sahlin recommended reading the book, not for inspiration, but to understand the bourgeois ideology.[5]

In 2013 a theater group adapted Det sovande folket to the stage, which renewed discussion of the book.[1][2][6][7][8][3][9][10][11][12]

Criticism

In 2014, Folkbladet published an article criticizing Reinfeldt for having denied authorship of the book.[13] The book has been criticized for falsifying Swedish history.[14] The extreme right-wing Nordfront criticized Reinfeldt for his "svenskfientlighet" (swede-phobia) in the book.[15]

See also

Wikiquote has quotations related to Fredrik Reinfeldt#Det sovande folket.

References

  1. ^ a b Nyheter, SVT. "Premiär för Fredrik Reinfeldts dystopi".
  2. ^ a b "Den zzzovande Fredrik Reinfeldt".
  3. ^ a b "Reinfeldt, prata med oss om "Det sovande folket"".
  4. ^ a b Reinfeldt, F.: Det sovande folket, Moderata ungdomsförbundet (ISBN 91-86194-10-0) (p. 52)
  5. ^ "20091028 – Mona Sahlin: Öppningsanförande på Socialdemokraternas kongress 2009 – Svenska tal" (in Swedish). Retrieved 2021-09-23.
  6. ^ "Pjäsen klär av Reinfeldt". dalademokraten.se.
  7. ^ "Ekon från 90-talet - Ledarbloggen". bloggar.aftonbladet.se. 12 August 2013.
  8. ^ "Sveriges kvalitetssajt för nyheter". SvD.se.
  9. ^ "Sveriges kvalitetssajt för nyheter". SvD.se.
  10. ^ "Vänstervalkampanj på teaterscenen".
  11. ^ Nyheter, SVT (16 August 2013). ""Det sovande folket" spelas fram till valdagen".
  12. ^ "Nyhetspanelen | SVT Play". Archived from the original on 2013-12-26. Retrieved 2016-12-05.
  13. ^ Westerlind, Linda (2014). "Reinfeldts dubbelmoral (Reinfeldts double moral)". No. Debate. Folkbladet. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  14. ^ "Boken Reinfeldt vill glömma – nu allmän handling (The book Reinfeldt wants to forget - now a public record)". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). No. debate. SVT (State Television). 19 June 2014. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  15. ^ "Reinfeldt: Svenskarna äger inte Sverige | Nordfront.se (The Swedes do not own Sweden)". www.nordfront.se. Nordfront (Nordic front). 2014. Retrieved 25 June 2019.


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