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I don't know how meaningful the question really is, and fuck YouGov, but still thought the data were interesting and vaguely positive.

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[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 54 points 2 days ago
[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 42 points 2 days ago

Given the party is one step away from explicitly labelling themselves as fascist, it's not too much of a surprise.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This is from 2023

29% of the UK support Communism

53% of the UK support Socialism

39% of the people asked to define Socialism define it correctly

cat-vibing

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/blogs/new-poll-finds-strong-support-for-socialism-in-the-uk

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago

That is actually hecking cool. Despite our shitty electoral politics, there are already a good number of people actually caring about socialism.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago

Yeah they're very good figures we just need to work on educating more and more people on the definition but the figures are excellent.

That 29% are basically going to form the immediate base of literally any new party effort once it finally goes into action. We are a third of the country.

[-] weeen@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago

Worryingly, young people in the U.K. (ages 18-34) also have the highest levels of support for communism (29 per cent) and fascism (19 per cent) among the four countries.

yeah those are both equally worrying!

[-] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 40 points 2 days ago

If you HAD to choose between Communism and Fascism

Oh no, please don't force me to make this choice, it's impossible.

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago

I need to watch a civil debate between both sides where these positions are discussed in the free market place of ideas before I can make a decision.

At the end of the day, fascists are human too and we both want what's best for the country, we just have different ways of getting there, and I think we can agree to disagree.

[-] antmzo220@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago

At the end of the day, fascists are human too and we both want what's best for the country, we just have different ways of getting there, and I think we can agree to disagree.

Meanwhile those evil communists want to abolish the country and take your home to give to an immigrant!

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 31 points 2 days ago

I see that my constant nagging down the pub is slowly having an effect

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago

thank you for your service o7

[-] ikilledtheradiostar@hexbear.net 32 points 2 days ago

That gray bar is black in reality

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I personally think it's mostly people who really have no consciousness about politics whatsoever.

[-] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago

I love how the worker's party (allegedly) has less people wanting communism than the fucking gardeners party. amerikkka-clap but ukkk instead pls

[-] weeen@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

C2DE isn't a party, it's just a social classification

[-] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

somehow better, but also worse to know, thank you

[-] SnAgCu@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago

I love the wording

If you HAD to choose between a nice sandwich and getting mauled by a wolverine, which would you choose?

[-] miz@hexbear.net 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I do NOT want to see the numbers for America, they'll be way worse

[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 34 points 2 days ago

I want to see numbers for America, we must know the painful truth.

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 29 points 2 days ago

I do wonder how the question was posed. I don't think many people would openly admit to supporting fascism, but if you broke the question down into certain policy choices I feel like the number would skew higher. But that could just be me.

On the otherhand that would also mean less people are apprehensive about openly admitting they'd support communism, which would be cool.

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 33 points 2 days ago

I don't think many people would openly admit to supporting fascism

which is why i count the "don't know" votes as "fascism, but i'm not gonna say that out loud"

[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

At least some of them are "communism, but i'm not gonna say that out loud".

[-] ChuzaUzarNaim@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 2 days ago

I do wonder how the question was posed. I don't think many people would openly admit to supporting fascism, but if you broke the question down into certain policy choices I feel like the number would skew higher. But that could just be me.

You can do the same thing with communism. A lot of people like the policies, but shy away when you attach the word "communism" to it thanks to decades of indoctrination.

[-] ChicagoCommunist@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

The question is stated underneath the title in the image. But yeah I think depending on how you explain the policy the answers would be more polarized

[-] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I get the impression it was very different in the early 20th century, but I honestly think that fascists in the early 21st century on the whole probably don't even realize they're fascists and will reject being called one purely on reflex. You see this particularly well in a lot of terminally online nerd spaces where people will state and argue for cis white male patriarchal supremacist positions without a moments hesitation but will react with complete incredulity if you call them on it. Some of them are being self aware crypto-fasch sure...but a lot of them just deny it because they have just enough awareness and self preservation that they recognize that makes them a bad person and doing any work to be better is much harder than just pretending.

All this is to say: the people who voted in favor of fascism are the ones already excited to slap a swastika on. A huge number of the people who voted "Don't Know" are probably down to fuck with fascism...they would just rather call it liberalism.

[-] TheaJo@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

can't do revolution their parties are too busy hating on the transgenders

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

Reactionaries gonna reactionary. The good takeaway is that most people don't really seem to agree with the main parties anyway.

[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago

5% of Labour voters preferring fascism must be turbo politically confused.

[-] RaisedFistJoker@hexbear.net 30 points 2 days ago

no theyre actually the most congnizent of all labour voters, they know wat they really are

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

I'm more baffled by the 25% of Tory voters preferring communism. I want to meet these people who support the conservatives but don't actively want fascism??

[-] sinstrium@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

Government does stuffism

[-] weeen@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

21% of reform is even more insane, we could form a British ACP to split their vote dean-smile

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

Genuinely not a bad idea to reduce their power

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago
[-] Kumikommunism@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Have you seen Kier Stürmer's policies? Those 5% are the only honest ones.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

YO thats enough for a revolution

[-] antmzo220@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Alternative title: 51%* of Britons unsure if they would prefer Communism over Facsism.

Very concerning.

Edit: initially said 25% for some reason.

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Y'all are making a very important conflation

People are largely supportive of communist policies. How to get there and stay there is where most Westerners disagree

Break the commie voters down by how to achieve it and it should be almost all by voting

[-] GenXen@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

If this keeps up, Churchill is going to send the army into Wales again.

[-] christian@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

I don't know how meaningful the question really is

It's funny how my first thought is to quip that it's meaningful in that fascists might consider rebranding as communists, then I remember that "national socialism" is an actual thing that arguably had some historical significance.

[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

If you gave that survey in the US people would be like "BUT GOMUDISM IS FASHISM!11!"

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