<p>This essay is about the Workers Communist Party. My method for the analyzing part in this essay is qualitative methods such as text and idea analysis. I have chosen the words of Claudin to describe which ideological standpoints Workers Communist Party have. First I write about the background to why Workers Communist Party was formed in 1977. The background is the big split of extreme left wingers from the left party, which formed several organisations such as The Communist Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary Party and The Communist Organization for Marxist-Leninists. The first was neo-stalinistic, the second was maoistic. The ideology of Workers Communist Party is at most stalinistic. But the question of worldwide peace takes the party a bit off from the Stalinist ideology. Somehow, the politics of Workers Communist Party is at most similar to radical social-democratic or ordinary left-wing politics. The most important questions for the party are equality, democracy in state and economy and, at last, work and safety for all people. In Swedish elections, Workers Communist Party has failed. At 1979 they had 15 mandates in eleven counties in the northeast part of Sweden. At 2006, Workers Communist Party only has two mandates in the county of Gällivare in the northeast of Lapland.</p>

Det Socialdemokratiska arbetarpartiet har betytt mycket för den välfärdsstat som präglat Sverige sedan 1960-talet, välfärdspolitiken har dessutom alltid varit en hörnsten för socialdemokratin. Tidigare forskning visar att välfärd har varit ett intressant studieobjekt för främst ekonomiska och demografiska studier, varför jag nu ämnar studera området från ett sociologiskt och politiskt perspektiv. Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka om det Socialdemokratiska arbetarpartiet förändrat sin välfärdspolitik under de senaste decennierna samt hur den förda välfärdspolitiken kan relateras till partiets grundideologi. Giddens teori om “tredje vägen” samt Esping-Andersens teori om välfärdsstater ligger till grund för denna studie. Metoden bygger på en argumentationsanalys samt en idé- och ideologianalys. Materialet består bland annat av partiprogram och riksdagsmotioner. Resultatet visade att det till viss del har skett förändringar på de välfärdspolitiska områdena. Det gäller främst nyliberala värderingar samt en större marknadsvänlighet på den välfärdspolitiska arenan. Även argumenten inom välfärdspolitiken har fått en mer nyliberal prägel på senare tid, detta kan härledas till teorin om “tredje vägen”. I samtliga dokument framkom dock en övervägande del socialistiska idéer vilket innebär att välfärdspolitiken fortfarande är starkt representerad av partiets grundideologi. Socialistiska idéer som exempelvis social trygghet för alla människor, har präglat välfärdspolitiken sedan 1960-talet fram till idag.

This essay is about the Workers Communist Party. My method for the analyzing part in this essay is qualitative methods such as text and idea analysis. I have chosen the words of Claudin to describe which ideological standpoints Workers Communist Party have. First I write about the background to why Workers Communist Party was formed in 1977. The background is the big split of extreme left wingers from the left party, which formed several organisations such as The Communist Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary Party and The Communist Organization for Marxist-Leninists. The first was neo-stalinistic, the second was maoistic. The ideology of Workers Communist Party is at most stalinistic. But the question of worldwide peace takes the party a bit off from the Stalinist ideology. Somehow, the politics of Workers Communist Party is at most similar to radical social-democratic or ordinary left-wing politics. The most important questions for the party are equality, democracy in state and economy and, at last, work and safety for all people. In Swedish elections, Workers Communist Party has failed. At 1979 they had 15 mandates in eleven counties in the northeast part of Sweden. At 2006, Workers Communist Party only has two mandates in the county of Gällivare in the northeast of Lapland.