{"id":176973,"date":"2026-08-30T10:10:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T08:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/?p=176973"},"modified":"2026-08-30T10:11:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T08:11:01","slug":"film-darfor-lamnade-jag-68-vanstern-fran-kapitalet-till-verkligheten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/film-thats-why-i-left-the-68-left-from-capitalism-to-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"FILM: Why I Left the '68 Left\u2014From \"Capital\" to Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">The opinions expressed are personal and represent the person, not Freedom News.\nWe allow all opinions to be expressed, even if they are uncomfortable. We stand for real freedom of expression.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Patrik Engellau was a staunch '68 Marxist. He read all four volumes of Karl Marx\u2019s *Capital* and belonged to the generation that believed they would change the world. In this interview, he speaks candidly about how that belief faded.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading sg-ai-highlighted-block\"><strong>From the idealism of the \u201c60s and \u201d70s, through his work at Sida and the UN, to the bitter reality when he saw how the \u201cliberated\u201d socialist state actually functioned. And how Birgitta Dahl reacted when he dared to tell the truth. A personal and honest account of why one of the 1968 left\u2019s own left the ideology behind.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/subscribe\/\">Subscribe to Freedom News<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/become-a-member\/\">Become a member of Frihetsmytt<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was active in the leftist movement of 1968, read Marx, and was an outspoken socialist. But Patrik Engellau eventually left the movement<\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":176977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,216],"tags":[6806,177,1698,1634],"class_list":["post-176973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","category-djupa-samtalet","category-tv","tag-karl-marx","tag-kommunism","tag-patrik-engellau","tag-vanster","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}