^A:Flyg believed that Stalinism would be the worst result of the German-Soviet War. Flyg believed that Hitler's brand of socialism would be better than Stalinism, and fully embraced Nazism; except for the antisemitism. Flyg's successor, Blom, would become the leader of a neo-Nazi party.
The Socialist Party (Swedish: Socialistiska partiet), was a political party in Sweden active from 1929 to 1948. Led by Karl Kilbom and Nils Flyg, the party was founded in 1929 as a splinter group of the Communist Party of Sweden. Until 1934, the splinter group used the same name Communist Party of Sweden (Swedish: Sveriges kommunistiska parti), so in order to keep the two factions apart, this faction was generally known as Kilbommare ("Kilbomiars") while those who stayed in the old party were known as Sillénare ("Sillénians", after their leader Hugo Sillén).
SP election poster. Text reads, "Strike the beast down - vote with the people for the country' (the dragon is labelled "International Big Finance").
In the split, the entire communist parliamentary group, the party's official newspaper, Folkets Dagblad Politiken, and most of the more militant members joined the Kilbom-Flyg faction.
In 1943, under Agaton Blom, they changed their name to the Swedish Socialist Party (Swedish: Svenska socialistiska partiet, SSP)[3] and existed in this form until it dissolved in 1948.
History
The Kilbom-led SKP held its congress prior to the Sillén-led party. At the congress there was a debate regarding the character of the party, whether to continue the system of party cells (the structure of the pre-split SKP) or whether to become a more open mass party. In the end the statues adopted by the congress differed little from those of the pre-split SKP. Party cells remained the basic organization of the party, and in places where no cell existed a party member would be organized in the arbetarkommun directly. However the criteria for membership were relaxed, the sole remaining criterion was activism in the base level organization.[4]
In 1930, Flyg, as an MP, put forward a motion on separation of church and state. The motion was voted down in the Lower House.
The Kilbom party merged in 1934 with a break-away group of the Social Democrats based in Gothenburg, led by Albin Ström. At the time of the merger, the party changed its name to the Socialist Party (Socialistiska partiet). The transformation into SP also marked a break with the previous line of the party towards the Comintern and the Soviet Union. Initially the party had tried to persuade the Comintern to be allowed to return to the International. Gradually, however the party became more and more antagonistic toward the Comintern and the Soviet Union.
The party gradually disintegrated, and many of the most prominent leaders such as Kilbom, left the party in 1937. During World War II, their staunch anti-Soviet line led the party to actually embrace some pro-German views (partially since the huge financial problems of the party led it to seek financial aid from Germany).[clarification needed] As a result of this, in 1940, a group of members that included Albin Ström and Evald Höglund broke away and formed the Left Socialist Party. In the elections the same year, the party lost its parliamentary representation.
When Flyg died in 1943, he was succeeded as party leader by Agaton Blom. During the final years of the war, the party continued to lose members and support, and changed its name to the Swedish Socialist Party (Svenska socialistiska partiet), which was outspokenly supportive of Nazi ideology.[5] The Swedish Socialist Party participated in the 1944 election and received 5,279 votes or 2 per thousand; they probably never reached a thousand members. The party was disbanded in 1948.
The local units of the party were known as "Socialist Labour Communes" (Socialistiska Arbetarkommuner).
1942 poster of the Uppsala party branch. Reads 'Blow up the Foundations of Reaction (the way out of war and isolation)'. Speakers were Nils Flyg and Arvid Olsson.
Electoral results of the party (in elections to the Riksdag):
Kommunistiska Förbundet Marxist-Leninisterna was formed at the 1967 party congress of VPK, when a pro-Chinese group left the party.
Marxist-Leninistiska Kampförbundet, full name Marxist-leninistiska kampförbundet för Sveriges kommunistiska parti, was a communist political organization in Sweden formed in 1970 by Vänsterns Ungdomsförbund, the youth organization of VPK. Within VUF several ultraleftist tendencies had surged during the 1960s, orientating it toward Maoism. VUF broke with VPK in 1968; in 1970, they formed MLK. MLK was ideologically almost identical with the larger KFML/SKP, with Marxism–Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought as the ideological backbone. MLK supported KFML/SKP in elections.
The name Communist Party of Sweden has been used by several political parties in Sweden:
Arbetarkommun alt. Arbetarekommun is the municipal unit of Sveriges Socialdemokratiska Arbetareparti. An arbetarkommun consists of several base level party units, workplace units, etc.
Nils Svante Flyg was a Swedish Communist politician who turned pro-Nazi during World War II.
Ture Nerman was a Swedish socialist journalist, author, and political activist. He also wrote poems and songs.
Karl Kilbom was a Swedish politician and one of the founders of the Communist Party of Sweden.
Politiken, later named Folkets Dagblad - Politiken was a Swedish Communist newspaper that existed from April 1916 to August 1940.
Sven Harald Linderot was a Swedish Communist leader. He was born Sven Harald Larsson but changed his surname to Linderot in 1918. Among party members he was also known as Sven-Lasse.
Sven Olov Knutsson Lindholm was a Swedish Nazi leader, active in far right politics from the 1920s to the 1950s. This included leading the Nazi party named Svensk socialistisk samling ; despite its name, this party was widely regarded as propagating a fascist/Nazi ideology.
August Spångberg was a Swedish labor politician. He was a member of the Riksdag, elected initially as a Communist and later as a Social Democrat.
Arbetar-Tidningen was a communist newspaper from Gothenburg, Sweden, published between 1929 and 1974.
Ny Dag was a Swedish communist newspaper and the main publication of the Communist Party of Sweden from 2 January 1930 to 5 August 1990, when publication stopped.
Ernst Arvid Olsson (1888–1958) was a Swedish politician and trade unionist. He was one of the foremost leaders of the Socialist Party.
Johan Viktor Herou was a Swedish politician from Österfärnebo. Herou dedicated a large part of his political career to the upliftment of the small peasantry.
Edoff Emanuel Andersson was a Swedish politician and trade unionist. He was a prominent union leader of the civilian employees in the defense sector as well as a communist member of parliament.
Jonas Petter Dahlén was a Swedish mine worker and politician.
The Left Socialist Party was a left-wing political party in Sweden that existed between 1940 and 1963.
The Left Party is a socialist political party in Sweden. On economic issues, the party opposes privatizations and advocates for increased public expenditures. In foreign policy, the party is Eurosceptic, being critical of the European Union and opposing Sweden’s entry into the eurozone. It attempted to get Sweden to join the Non-Aligned Movement in 1980, but did not succeed. The party is eco-socialist, and supports republicanism. It stands on the left wing of the political spectrum.
↑ Bolin, Jan. Parti av ny typ?: skapandet av ett svenskt kommunistiskt parti 1917-1933. Stockholm: Distribution, Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2004. p. 371
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