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"This study focuses on two Swedish politicians, Nils Flyg and Sven Olov Lindholm. During the interwar era, they were both leaders of various Swedish political parties; in the case of Flyg the Swedish Communist Party, and later on the Socialist Party; in the case of Lindholm the National Socialist Worker's Party (later renamed Swedish Socialist Unity). Both men were, in other words, influential politicians located at the outer edges of the ideological landscape.
During the span of their lifetimes, however, Flyg as well as Lindholm made remarkable ideological transitions. From the end of the thirties and onwards, the former communist leader Flyg successively embraced German Nazism. Lindholm on the other hand stepped down from his leadership after the war, and became a left-wing political activist who did not hesitate to identify himself as a communist. Superficially, this is strikingly symmetric: The communist leader becomes a Nazi, and the Nazi leader becomes a communist.
The aim of the study is to analyze the ideological links and tensions between Nazism and communism using these parallel biographies as a point of entrance. Inspired by political theorist Michael Freeden and his conceptual approach, and using a variety of sources, two core clusters of political concepts are identified and compared. It is shown that there are great similarities between Flyg and Lindholm when it comes to the role of anti-capitalism, anti-imperialism and the aspiration to idealize the Soviet Union or Germany as model states for workers. There are also, however, a number of differences, especially when it comes to views on modernity and materialism. In the final chapter, Flyg and Lindholm are compared to other European renegades. Here, the ambition is to identify common traits in the conversions. It is argued that the ideological antagonisms, the anti-positions, are crucial to this kind of generic renegadism."

Shin, Kei-Wah Victor. ; "November 2010." ; Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 177-198). ; Abstracts in English and Chinese. ; Abstract --- p.i ; Acknowledgments --- p.iv ; Table of Contents --- p.vi ; List of Tables --- p.ix ; List of Figures --- p.xii ; Chapter Chapter 1: --- Framing the Puzzles --- p.1 ; "INTRODUCING: ""The Curious Case of. a Fallen 'Asian Hollywood'""" --- p.3 ; METHOD AND DATA --- p.6 ; STRUCTURE OF THE THESIS --- p.12 ; Chapter Chapter 2: --- ""The Blind Side"" of Existing Explanations" --- p.15 ; CONVENTIONAL EXPLANATIONS --- p.17 ; Triad Intrusion and Piracy --- p.17 ; Hasty and Unpolished Productions --- p.19 ; EXPLANATIONS DERIVED FROM THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES --- p.21 ; The Cultural Imperialism approach --- p.22 ; The Cultural-flows/ Network approach --- p.27 ; Suppositions related to the Cultural-flows/ Network approach --- p.32 ; The Reception approach --- p.36 ; The Cultural Policy and Strategies approach --- p.41 ; What about the Receiving Countries? --- p.46 ; THE POLITICAL-CULTURAL APPROACH --- p.48 ; Chapter Chapter 3: --- The "Bloom´ح in the 1970s and the 1980s --- p.53 ; "THE ""BLOOM""" --- p.53 ; BRINGING IN THE POLITICAL-CULTURAL APPROACH --- p.57 ; THE INDUSTRIAL SETTING OF THE HONG KONG FILM MARKET VIS-A-VIS HOLLYWOOD --- p.59 ; THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF THE HONG KONG FILM MARKET --- p.62 ; From Studio System to Independent Production System since the 1970s --- p.63 ; The Revenue-sharing Structure --- p.68 ; """CONCEPTIONS OF CONTROL"" IN THE HONG KONG FILM MARKET (1970s - 1980s)" --- p.70 ; Distributor-driven Exhibition --- p.72 ; Distributor-driven Production --- p.75 ; HONG KONG FILM INDUSTRY AT ITS PEAK IN THE LATE 1980s --- p.81 ; SUMMARY --- p.88 ; Chapter Chapter 4: --- "The ""Twilight"" since the mid-1990s" --- p.91 ; WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE 1990s? --- p.91 ; The Plot in Brief --- p.92 ; THE KEY TO SUCCESS TURNS INTO A SOURCE OF STRESS --- p.97 ; "Conventional Practices inscribed in the ...