[lbo-talk] Peruvian opinion

Marvin Gandall marvgandall at videotron.ca
Wed Aug 6 07:25:55 PDT 2008


Doug writes:


> The URL says it all:
>
> <http://www.gallup.com/poll/109297/More-Peruvians-Favor-Socialism-Than-Capitalism.aspx
> >
============================================ Depends what people have in mind when they describe themselves as "socialist". For most, it doesn't correspond to the classical Marxist notion of a "proletarian dictatorship" and public ownership, but to the capitalist welfare state model favoured by social democrats. The poll notes that only a small percentage of the sample was attracted to what Gallup calls the "extreme forms of socialism" practiced under Chavez in Venezuela (21%), Morales in Bolivia (28%), and Correa in Ecuador (31%).



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