Financial Times om upploppens orsaker: marknadsexperimentet har gått för långt

Ibland blir man överraskad. I går var ett sådant ”ibland”. Den brittiska prestigetidningen Financial Times, som på ledarplats sällan framstår som en progressiv kraft, skriver om upploppen i Stockholm under rubriken ”The challenges of the Swedish model”.

Det är som sagt en överraskande – och intressant läsning. Det börjar redan vid nedyckaren, som kan få vilken mörkblå svensk ledarsida som helst att sätta i halsen: Stockholmupploppen handlar mer om ekonomi än om invandring.

Jag citerar lite:

As for the welfare state, it is almost 20 years since Sweden turned from being the Nordic country that took social democracy the furthest to the one that experimented most radically with market liberalisation. Swedes must consider whether the pendulum that swung too far in one direction may now be overcompensating in the other.

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The challenge of integration is economic, not ethnic or even cultural. The streets of Husby and other Stockholm suburbs are filled with inhabitants for whom cultural diversity is a source of pride, not tension, and who are determined to succeed individually and prosper together.

The solutions must in part be of the workhorse policy-making variety. That includes better understanding and countering of the causes of Sweden’s slipping egalitarianism in terms both of income and of access to public services. The quality of schooling, for which the private sector and municipalities have been given responsibility, is especially vulnerable in the already most deprived areas. 

Jaha, så där kan man också skriva. Nu får Dagens Nyheters ledarsida ta och skälla ut Financial Times-skribenternas föräldrar.

Daniel Swedin