Yesterday, Tuesday 4th February, 11 people were killed in a shooting at Risbergska school in Örebro. We begin by offering our condolences to all the loved ones of the victims, we feel their deep pain and mourn the dead.
It is important to clarify what happened, why and what it expresses. It was no coincidence that the terrorist act took place at this school. Risbergska skolan is a mixed adult and Swedish school for immigrants, which makes it a perfect target for a reactionary fascist who wants to get rid of some immigrants.
It should then be mentioned that the terrorist act was politically motivated. The perpetrator is a product of a social commodity and his thoughts and ideas are born and created in rotten bourgeois society. The crisis that imperialism in general and Swedish imperialism in particular finds itself in is a crisis from which it cannot get out. It is incapable of solving its own problems. It is obvious that when the growth of Swedish imperialism stagnates, it needs to compensate by increasing the exploitation of its own population. This increases its unpopularity and in order to defend itself it needs to find some other group to blame so that people do not hold them responsible.
Swedish imperialism applies a reaction in all areas, making it increasingly difficult for the proletariat to live. They try to justify this by blaming these problems on immigrants. The incitement that not only the Swedish Democrats and the moderates, but also the social democrats are exerting against Sweden's immigrant population is enormous. It is no wonder that it puts incredibly terrible ideas into some people's heads and makes them act extremely desperately and irrationally. When the media and Ulf Kristersson describe the perpetrator as a "loner" and an outcast from society, it is to cover up his involvement in the murders. Is he really disconnected from society if he shares the worldview of Kristersson and Åkesson? It is Ulf Kristersson, the Swedish bourgeois parties, the Swedish monopoly press and the Swedish bourgeoisie who are directly responsible for the general reactionary nature of society.
This is reminiscent of the infamous "Laser Man", John Ausonius, who also murdered 11 people in the 1990s. Wasn't he a product of the rise of the Nazi party New Democracy? Even with him, they blame autism, an unsafe upbringing and an antisocial personality disorder. It is not in the interests of the bourgeoisie to make a proper analysis. Rather, they fall into metaphysical explanations. It is much better to describe him as a "recluse" than to go to the root of the problem.
Furthermore, it is worth mentioning the hypocrisy displayed by the monopolistic press and representatives of the bourgeoisie when commenting on the event. First of all, their actions are not described as terror. This is even stated by Säpo, which claims that it is for the safety of the kingdom (by kingdom is meant that of the Swedish bourgeoisie), which has participated in the investigation. This is very different from the writings and statements that have commented on the shootings between "criminal gangs" and the execution of the reactionary and Koran-burner Salwan Momika. They are not afraid to use the label of terrorism there. A few days before the shooting, Ulf Kristersson stated that "the wave of violence in Sweden is related to immigration." When it is immigrants who shoot, then it is terrorism, when it is whites who shoot, then it is "a poor loner who did not fit in." It is exactly the same way that organized crime linked to immigrants is called barbaric "gang crime" and when it is white, it is called sophisticated "mafia."
Obviously, this is only the beginning. It is simply a continuation of the crisis that the old society finds itself in. When representatives of the bourgeois class continue to increase exploitation and reactionisation while blaming immigrants for their problems and their actions to divide the working class, this will create more “lonely people” who will act irrationally. It is Swedish imperialism, its politicians, its monopoly press and all its institutions that breed and feed the fascists and are therefore responsible!
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