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Chris Kenning in the Louisville Courier-Journal …

“Suddenly there are more people who want to know what it actually is,” said [Louisville resident Fred] Hicks, head of the Committee of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, whose members seek more government regulation of business, health care and wages. Nationwide, the Democratic Socialists of America partly credits the term’s usage with a 64 percent rise in memberships between 2008 and 2009 … A recent Rasmussen Reports poll found that 53 percent of Americans thought capitalism was better than socialism; 20 percent preferred socialism; and 27 percent were uncertain

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