Just 53% Say Capitalism Better Than Socialism

Rasmussen Reports
Friday, April 10, 2009

Only 53% of American adults believe capitalism is better than socialism.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 20% disagree and say socialism is better. Twenty-seven percent (27%) are not sure which is better.

Adults under 30 are essentially evenly divided: 37% prefer capitalism, 33% socialism, and 30% are undecided. Thirty-somethings are a bit more supportive of the free-enterprise approach with 49% for capitalism and 26% for socialism. Adults over 40 strongly favor capitalism, and just 13% of those older Americans believe socialism is better.

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Investors by a 5-to-1 margin choose capitalism. As for those who do not invest, 40% say capitalism is better while 25% prefer socialism.

There is a partisan gap as well. Republicans – by an 11-to-1 margin – favor capitalism. Democrats are much more closely divided: Just 39% say capitalism is better while 30% prefer socialism. As for those not affiliated with either major political party, 48% say capitalism is best, and 21% opt for socialism.

The question posed by Rasmussen Reports did not define either capitalism or socialism

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9 Responses to “Just 53% Say Capitalism Better Than Socialism”

1. Rosco P Coultrain Says:
   April 10th, 2009 at 2:02 pm

   I don’t think the vast majority of Americans would know what capitalism is if it hit them in the face. It hasn’t been present here in the USSA for a long, long time. What we have today is fascism, interventionism, collectivism, excessive regulation/taxation, and globalism… to name a few.

2. terry Says:
   April 11th, 2009 at 9:29 am

   Hey guys I have found a site that makes it much easier to get the word out.

   They call them hookks and they are mini letters to the editor. You can post them on mainstream news sites as well as prisonplanet and infowars.

   Help expose the mainstream media blackout of the important issues by hookking the news you read. It’s really easy and non disruptive to your normal news reading.

   It’s at http://hookk.com . Even though they don’t make it clear you should get the hookk button when you get there. It’s much more effective.

3. GWScam Says:
   April 12th, 2009 at 2:10 am

   “What we have today is fascism, interventionism, collectivism, excessive regulation/taxation, and globalism… to name a few.”

   Yes, that’s what capitalism and free reign trade eventually results in. Capitalism, Communism. Both hegelian dialectic programming terms. Neither is any answer, but the answer incorporates both. In fact the answer incorporates and caters for ALL, as it needs to, by maximising individual freedoms and restricting aquisition drives to a lifetime. Land and resources MUST be collectively owned and compensation for development paid DIRECT to the people who collectively govern. This is the basic requirement of ANY REAL recovery.

4. colt beavers Says:
   April 12th, 2009 at 1:07 pm

   Unbelievable….what a nation of idiots

5. Matthew Says:
   April 12th, 2009 at 2:29 pm

   We have got to face the fact that the crisis that we are now in has been created as a direct consequence of Capitalism. Capitalism has only got one motivation, one driving force. Its engine is the acquisition of maximum profit at the fastest possible pace. If it doesn’t do that then they’ll not only sell off the family silver, they’ll even sell off the family, in order to achieve anything that represents an acquisition of personal profit

6. Alienation Says:
   April 12th, 2009 at 2:58 pm

   None of you have any comprehension of capitalism. And how could you? You would have to have been born before you were sold to the federal reserve…

7. zlogic Says:
   April 16th, 2009 at 7:19 am

   Matthew, this crisis is not the a direct consequence of capitalism, it is the direct consequence of letting a bunch of fools in congress dictate too much how businesses should be run and taxing them into oblivion. Ever wonder why even Miller Beer is not an American based company anymore?

   

   Matthew Reply:
   April 22nd, 2009 at 9:12 am

   Gerald Celente said on the show the other day that fascism is taking hold in America the merger of corporate and state powers. Thats what’s going on now and the principle culprit of all the problems is Capitalism.

8. Trustin Says:
   April 16th, 2009 at 1:07 pm

   Hi all. My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
   I am from Vatican and too poorly know English, tell me right I wrote the following sentence: “Thus, getting a cheap airline ticket to go home and celebrate such moments would travel flights tips on buying cheap airline tickets for the festive season.”

   Thanks in advance. Trustin.