Most American don't have the foggiest notion of what is entailed in communism or socialism for that matter. In fact, they don't know the difference between direct democracy and a republic.
"Moral superiority" of communism - WTF does that mean. Forget most Americans, how about people on this list. What is capitalism, what is socialism and what is communism. How, in theory, are they related? How does socialism differ from Capitalism? How are they similar. Why must socialism exhibit a dictatorship of the proletariat? How is communism similar to socialism? How does it differ? CHAD -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Doug Henwood Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 12:32 PM To: Progressive Economics Subject: Re: [Pen-l] 11 percent of American voters prefer communism On Mar 18, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > is it unreasonable to conclude from this that the survey is more likely to have reduced the actual number of people who believe in the moral superiority of communism? that's what it looks like to me, but I have a bad feeling that it may not be fair for some reason I'm not seeing here. It's hard to say. Their wording usually skews right, but the technique they use seems to attract extremes of opinion. So it may be that they attracted passionate commies. Or they wanted to talk up the commie threat. Or maybe one in nine Americans wants to socialize the means of production. Hard to say, since Rasmussen is so unreliable. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
