Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Many Germans favor communist, socialist ideas

As Oscar Wilde once put it, democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

A recent opinion poll shows that 60% of Germans think there is no genuine democracy anymore in their country. In the survey, one in three respondents said capitalism bred poverty and hunger. At the same time, 59% of those polled in East German states favor communist and socialist ideas.

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