Toward the end of his life, Myrdal warned that the organized left was losing its footing within the working class, and insisted that the political task of Marxists was to follow the working class and express its demands. He caused a stir among his own supporters by writing that the electoral successes of the far-right Front National in France was based on her ability to attract working class voters by attacking neoliberalism. Although the Front National leader Marine Le Pen "is not a socialist," Myrdal wrote, "she nevertheless expresses what is, in fact, class demands of the working class and the working people." In 2016, he demonstratively penned an article for the far-right newspaper "Nya Tider", founded and run by former members of the National Democrats.