[lbo-talk] 36% of Americans have a positive image of socialism

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Feb 5 04:36:26 PST 2010


On Feb 5, 2010, at 7:24 AM, Matthias Wasser wrote:


> Socialism and capitalism both get 60% approval ratings from
> liberals. I
> think a very big portion are taking the Republicans at face value
> when they
> call the welfare state socialism, and judging accordingly

Yup, I think you're right. Whenever Fox calls the pres a socialist, the Dems say, well maybe socialism isn't too bad. Alas, what that means is that throwing buckets of money at Wall Street to restore the status quo ante bustum = socialism.

Doug



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