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RV EVICTS POOR PEOPLE FROM THEIR HOMES

Thursday the 16^th of June 2006, the politicians of Trondheim decided on a new regulation plan for the areas Lian and Kystadmarka. The fate of numerous families, who had made their cabins into whole-year apartments, was settled.

The «red» majoritiy had their way

The consequence of the decree is that more than 30 families will be forcibly evicted from their homes. RV (Red election alliance), with two amongst the Red's majority of 43 in a total of 85 city council representatives, are on a tight margin. Through their group leader – Arne Byrkjeflot – who also leads the Trondheim chapter of LO, RV has marked themselves heavily through their uncompromising battle to forcibly evict people from what in many cases have been their homes for more than 30 years.

Father of five – Lars Lindblom – says to the local paper Adresseavisa that his familiy doesn't at all have two millions in the bank to make them able to buy a new home.

Lars and his wife makes clear:

-         «to us there is no alternative to living on Lian»

-         «We will never move, this is our home, this is our life», Lars says, talking about their small cabin with tar-covered-cardboard roof.

-         «I will fight to the last, we'll move over my dead body», the father of five concludes

Contempt for the little man

These people, whose situation RV's Arne Byrkjeflot warned against bringing into the debate before the city councils decision, is what RV uses their full policitcal strength against.

The day before the decision, Byrkjeflot pronounced to TV-adressa that the fate of individual families means less than bymarka, and if such construction [converting of cabins to apartments] is allowed, it can have insurmountable consequences.

What is made visible through this conflict is RV's marxistic heritage, where they after Leninistic doctrine look at themselves as an elite, chosen to bring up the people and correct it in all its misjudgements. The contempt for the little man (by Norwegian marxists called the «low proletariat») and his earthly worries, as having a roof over his head, is given an ideological righteousness through the marxistic view of reality, as the people are note seen as the sum of individuals, but as people in a higher, more abstract understanding, which only the elite is able to fathom. Clarity thus arises around the Marxism's half-religious character and links to ideologies of which one in these circles strives to keep alive as images of hell on earth.