Proletären, the newspaper of the Communist Party of Sweden (K), has published a letter by Tomas Härdin arguing that the only way to solve the climate crisis is through instituting a global planned economy.
A summary of the letter can be found below:
This is a letter I wrote to Proletären, the newspaper of the Communist Party of Sweden (K). The letter was published in issue 15, 9-15 April 2026. I cannot find it among the letters at proletaren.se at the moment (2026-04-20) and have therefore decided to also publish it here on the blog. The text is also available in the original Swedish. See the box to the right.
Proletären changed the title to “The climate requires careful socialist planning”, which of course is true. But here I use the original title. The language is quite “short” due to space constraints. There is also likely some Swenglish that shines through in the translation.
This is not the first letter I have written in Swedish workers’ press. I and David Zachariah wrote a letter to Flamman three years ago on a similar theme, but with more careful language so as to not frighten Flamman’s left liberal editorial staff. That article can be read in Swedish here: Flamman | Vi behöver digital ekonomisk koordinering för att rädda klimatet.