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. 2 Today, Swedish social democracy is again stressing its idea of a strong relationship between growth and security as a mark of distinction between the Swedish folkhem -model and other models in the debate on the future of the European social model, and against US-style workfare capitalism. Others are looking to this Swedish idea, too. The Lisbon strategy, which Swedish social democracy put a lot
of dealing with the worst effects of capitalism on the social sphere, but was designed as an institutionally redistributive strategy for decommodification and equality. In line with this argument, productivism is not workfare, in the sense of social rights being conditional upon productive participation, but rather it is a stress on the productive potential of individuals. 26 There is a significant difference between the