Socialist Party (Sweden, 1929)

Socialist Party
Socialistiska partiet
LeaderNils Flyg (1929–1943)
Agaton Blom [sv] (1943)
Founded1929 (1929)
Dissolved1948 (1948)
Split fromCommunist Party of Sweden
NewspaperFolkets Dagblad Politiken
Tidens Röst (after 1940)
IdeologySocialism
Anti-Stalinism
Pro-Nazi[A] (from 1940)[1][2]
Political positionLeft-wing
International affiliationInternational Communist Opposition (1929–1933),
International Revolutionary Marxist Centre (1933–1938)
Party flag
^ 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.

  1. ^ Stenfeldt, Johan. "Johan Stenfeldt – En kommunist som blir nazist, en nazist som blir kommunist" (in Swedish). Lund: Lund University. Archived from the original on 20 May 2021. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  2. ^ Stenfeldt, Johan (2019). Renegater : Nils Flyg och Sven Olov Lindholm i gränslandet mellan kommunism och nazism. Lund: Nordic Academic Press. ISBN 9789188909282.
  3. ^ "Omstridd bok pekar ut svenska nazister". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). 14 August 2002. ISSN 1101-2412. Retrieved 19 August 2022.