(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)
- Actually, the party was both provincially and politically blinded, says P2's Jens A. Riisnæs about the Socialist People's Party (SF) in the 70s.
It happens in a ten-page interview in a new issue of At the same time, where the host of "Out in the World" is outraged by SF's wagging for the Communists in Eastern Europe.
- With coryphaeus like Knut Løfsnes and Berge Furre at the helm, they wagged for the distorted, perverted petty-bourgeois GDR, among other things, he says.
After many travels in Eastern Europe at this time, Riisnæs believes that SF has had a "striking ability to make mistakes in the major international issues".
- To paraphrase Orwell, one had to be intellectual not to see that the political system in Eastern Europe was criminal, he says to Morten Strøksnes, who has been responsible for the interview in the magazine.
Old wine
That SF, which was founded in 1961, was something new and exciting shot at the Norwegian party political tribe, he also doubts.
- The whole thing was a new twist on something you had seen before. The Labor Party revolted against unrealistic theorists of violence in 1923, those who broke out and formed the Norwegian Communist Party, NKP. The Socialist People's Party, SF, was in many ways the same phenomenon, it was old wine in new bottles, in the form of theoretically oriented academics who had little empirical contact with the reality they were so concerned with.
The AKP was just a lightning rod
Riisnæs thinks that SF was so bad that the debate about the AKP (ml) that raged this summer in a way covered what really should be criticized. They kicked in wide-open doors by criticizing the MLs, he believes
- No, the most problematic thing about ML-røsla in Norway is that it came to function as a lightning conductor, a camouflage network over the politically much more important SF / SV segment. Which has led to presumably up-and-coming people like Petter Nome obviously believing the Korean War was due Western imperialism, Riisnæs states.
The bay and both ends
The problem, according to Riisnæs, is also not less because the SVs also have a certain power in the media:
Carl I Hagen had not followed very well when he called NRK ARK. SVRK would fit better. So far it went on at Marienlyst that the very number two in the house had to ask for an end to "SV members making programs for other SV members". And then he had not only narrow cultural programs in mind, but especially social and foreign programs. Then forget the shabby bureaucrat types from the Labor Party, forget the AKP-Bjørn Nilsen with his basedow look. It was a completely different party that dominated Marienlyst, and eventually in several of the largest newspapers. When such a systematically distorted perception of reality occurs at the same time as the galloping commercialization of the mass media, then there is every reason to shout a culture warning.
