Abstract

After shifting from Marxism to Swedish nationalism, Göran Dahl now wants to market a somewhat plausible package of “people's home” mythology as a blue-yellow social Utopia in an otherwise “sinful” word. He is not, however, very clever. Had he been satisfied with the positive review of ResPublica—the special issue on Conservative Revolution1 — many skeletons from the people's home may have remained hidden in the closet. As a Swedish professor, he is an ämbetsman — or civil servant in the Swedish tradition which defines teachers not as intellectuals but as bureaucrats whose duty is, first of all, to serve the state. Thus, he has done what he is supposed to do: defend the state.