#54: Talking with Ali Esbati About What's Left of Nordic Social Democracy

Ali Ekbati was a leader of Sweden's Left Party  in 2014 when he was elected to parliament where he served for a decade. In recent years he's been a popular blogger and economic analyst, now living in Oslo, Norway from where he spoke with us. His family emigrated to Scandinavia from Iran when he was a child. The conversation helps illuminate the current stagnation of the once exemplary Scandinavian social democratic model--and some openings for a new left politics based on multicultural solidarity. We close with Norwegian  musical evidence for hope.