Norway is a founding member of NATO and participated in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Libya. They behave like any other imperialist country. Sweden and Finland only more recently joined NATO, they chose the side that benefited them more, which was the empire of course. But even before joining NATO Sweden is a very well known weapons manufacturer and exporter.
I mean Sámi people exist and they get discriminated by the wholesome Nordic socdems to the point their culture and language is being erased
Search up Norway, Denmark, and Swedish colonialism. They had colonial empires too.
And as junior partners in the club, they still benefit from neocolonialism.
Even if a country didn’t/doesn’t engage directly with colonialism (which Sweden and Norway did, just not as successfully as others), they still benefit from exploiting the global South by being part of the Western system. Their banks finance and benefit from exploitation of the global South. Their industries are fueled by cheap natural resources imported directly or indirectly from the global South. These resources are maintained cheap by constantly destabilizing and puppeteering countries of the global South. For example, if the United States does a coup in Equador to acquire cheap lithium for Tesla’s car batteries, then Finland (notorious for importing cheap metal ore, then processing it and exporting the refined product) could just as easily benefit by bidding for and buying a part of the cheap lithium, through a small “cost of imperialism” fee.
The only country that somewhat fuels its social democracy through its own means is Norway, which relies on the North Sea oil & gas operations to do so.
Norway is host to a whole slew of Western instruments, including the organization that promoted Juan Guaido to be the “interim” president of Venezuela.
My ickle wittle scandenazian countries never did anything wrong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_West_India_Company
lol, try a cursory glance at history, what a loser
inB4, they blame merchants or something
A few links.
- What about social democracy / democratic socialism / the Nordic model? Isn’t Sweden socialist?
- On the unraveling of the Nordic welfare states: increasing inequality and forced austerity.
- Scandinavia’s covert role in western imperialism
Also worth reading about unequal exchange, and how the “nordic model” funds its social services on taxes on imports from super-exploited workers in the global south.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
There is a neat interview by Breakthrough News regarding this topic. Basically, Scandinavian companies participate in imperialism by outsourcing their labour to third world countries where they could exploit cheap labor and bypass the labor regulations in their own countries of origin. This is a phenomena that is common to all deindustrialized economies that boast about their progressive laws when in reality they are dissimulating exploitation done elsewhere.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Just look at which companies the Norwegian sovereign fund invest on. Not to mention Norwegian mining companies abroad.
I can’t believe that in 2026 we still have to explain how virtually all European countries are both beneficiaries and perpetrators of colonialism and imperialism.
the vulgar ‘misreading’ (read: malicious deception) of communism being merely an ideal of egalitarianism rather than a distant abstract end goal that’s being theorized about, implemented gradually and arduously through the distinct ideology of marxist leninism, has poisoned the yankee population.
99.9% of the usamerican populace lacks class consciousness. those who say they do target the surface level of billionaires and the position of having accrued a large amount of money rather than any facet of imperialism and global flow and dynamics of capitalism, since it’s easier for them to comprehend + doesn’t indict them as being the heinous hounds of human suffering they are, profiting off the plight of others and chewing the meat of other humans from places they can anonymize in their suburb in massachussets. in this way does their placid and nebulous ‘leftism’ repulse me, because in action it is the same as letting the fascists roam freely, if not disparaging the only socialist projects that create alternatives (which is why i find it so heinous that so many arguments about china being ‘state capitalist’ or ‘imperialist’ are allowed to continue). it ends the same way: we want our treats like the Western Europeans get theirs.
You don’t need a source. Just point out that Norway’s economy isn’t any more separate from Britain’s economy than Nigeria’s economy.
