We love communism

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http://21centurymanifesto.wordpress.com/2013/11/04/six-out-of-ten-russian-see-communism-as-a-good-system/

 

We can always be sceptical about opinion polls but when expertly done they are fairly accurate and quite instructive

 

Asked by pollsters to explain the meaning of the word communism, 23 percent said that for them it meant a just society where everyone is equal and all property is common.

For 9 percent, the word primarily stood for a specific economic and social system, while for 8 percent it represented a life better than today’s (“we were better off, people were taken better care of,” and “people were more plain and life was more plan as well”). Six percent said communism represented good and stable life for them, and praised the official Soviet era principle “From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs.”

Five percent dismissed communism as a utopia or fairytale, a “radiant future” that had never come true (“it’s a great pity that we never came to see it”). 

 43 percent would have welcomed Russia’s re-adopting the communist ideology, 38 percent were not happy with the idea, and 19 percent were undecided on this point.

 

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